Opinion of affirmative consent/"Yes Means Yes"

[Bojack Horseman]

"Yes Means Yes" is well-intentioned, but it is based on manufactured hysteria and does nothing more than ruin lives and allow jilted ex-lovers to get a very dangerous kind of revenge. Under "Yes Means Yes," a person can be a willing participant in a sex act and later say that because he or she never actually said a verbal "yes," that they were raped. Now their partner, who did nothing more than have consensual sex, is looking at a 15-year prison sentence and having his name on the sex offender registry for the rest of his life, right alongside pedophiles and real rapists.

The campus rape epidemic is nothing more than a manufactured crisis created by the Obama administration changing the definition of rape and a long-standing witch hunt on the part of radical organizations. The Obama administration changed the longstanding definition that went back for centuries, probably even Bible times, that rape involves force, incapacitation, and/or the victim saying no. The Obama administration changed the definition to mean that if the receptive partner, whether male or female, has had any alcohol, or doesn't verbally say yes even if they are a willing participant, it's still rape.

Getting someone drunk to take advantage of them is one thing. But it's another to try and criminalize consensual sex between two people who were intoxicated. Should both partners be tried for raping each other because their consensual encounter involved them both being drunk?

I don't discount the stories of people who are actually victims of rape (Especially as someone who was molested as a child), but "Yes Means Yes" is just bad legislation with real-world consequences.