Women are the fairer sex. As the fairer sex, they have rights and one of those rights is to not be abused by us men.
Abuse
comes in many forms - slapping their butts, pressing our groins against
them, pinching them, making lewd remarks about their breasts – the list
is simply endless.
I
have been closely following the case against the WikiLeaks campaigner,
Julian Assange who is holed up as a virtual prisoner in an embassy in
London as he fights attempts to have him extradited to Sweden to face
rape charges.
Rape
is rape. There are no two ways about it. It is a violation and is a
crime that is punishable – hopefully with a lengthy jail term.
Though
rape is rape, the woman who filed the charges against Assange told
police that she had consensual sex with him but woke the following
morning to find he was having sex with her again, without her consent
and without using a condom.
If
Assange is convicted, it puts men on a tight rope when it comes to sex.
Many men say that they have had consensual sex in the night and had
fallen asleep straight after they were done. Somewhere during the night
they have woken up all aroused, ‘made a move’ and started having sex
while the woman is still in a state of slumber but who has later woken
up and not thrown them off.
So
when does rape become rape? Are we men supposed to literally spell it
out in black and white that: “Can I have sex with you?” And later on in
the night are we still supposed to ask again because the statute of
limitations when we asked for sex the first time round has run out?
Will
we have to start walking round with ‘sexual consent’ forms which will
ask the lady to sign whenever we have sex and regardless of how many
times we have sex during the course of the night just to protect
ourselves if she cried rape the following morning? It is a tight
situation that one.
Where
I do wholeheartedly agree with the lady pressing the charges is the
fact that Assange sought to have sex without using a condom. That is a
clear cut violation and the book should be thrown at him.
Moving
on, I met a young man the other week who was on the run and his crime?
After taking one beer too many he went home and goofed not only his
sister but his mother. Of course the pair wasted no time in reporting
the matter to the police.
When
I asked why he had goofed his sister and mother, his response which
reeked of stupidity was: “I didn’t really goof them. I just gave them
polite slaps!” What the young man does not realize is that a slap,
punch, a kick still constitutes as having giving them a beating and no
matter how polite the slaps were.
I looked at him with pity and walked away with the hope that the long arm of the law will eventually catch up with him.
As
I part, I am not defending Assange on any of the claims made against
him but was merely trying to clarify when sex ceases to be consensual.
And to you men who go out beating up your mothers and sisters, it is so
un-cool!
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