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Crime victims sometimes face an uphill battle in court if they had consented to sex while drunk. I don't know how it works in the US, but in my country, when a
by xyzzyz 14y ago
Crime victims sometimes face an uphill battle in court if they had consented to sex while drunk.
I don't know how it works in the US, but in my country, when a person consents to sex while drunk, even though they wouldn't consent while sober, it's not considered to be a rape. The justification is that adult people know how alcohol works and may decide not to drink it, and the amount of alcohol needed to get someone drunk enough is too big to make someone intoxicated without them realizing. Of course, it also means that having sex with someone who passed out is rape, and so is getting someone to consent after giving them rape pills, for you can make someone ingest them without them realizing.
- rdtsc 14y agoI think in some instances (in some states) the claim brought by the victim as "I was drunk so even though I consented I didn't mean to really since I was impaired" carries more weight than in others. This happens for young college students for example who go to parties with people don't know, drink and then have to deal with the consequences. So we want to protect the victims of sexual abuse but also be very harsh on drunk drives except that the two are at odds. Now there is nothing stopping laws to passed that are logically inconsistent but of course we need to preserve at least a superficial objectivity so people keep believing in the legal system.