But I'm So Close
In what has to be one of the most ridiculous judicial decisions I've ever heard, a Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that if a woman consents to sex and changes her mind mid-act, that's not considered rape. That kind of thinking is beyond backwards, beyond primitive even... it's primeval. Hey, why stop there? Let's criminalize the act of giving someone blue balls. If a girl is in pain and ordering the guy to stop and he doesn't, that's rape. It offends the precepts of common decency to think otherwise. "Hold on, let me finish" is not a defense. I'm presuming that the panel handing down this decision was all male and that none of them have daughters. I would say that if I had a daughter, I would never raise her in the state of Maryland. But then again, if I had a daughter who was the victim of rape, the rapist wouldn't live long enough to stand trial.
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A. You take someone out on a few dates, later take them home, start screwing, and then the phone rings - - it's Grandma on the Answering Machine. Girl says "Stop! I gotta get that call!" You finish.
B. You attack a stranger in an alley and rape the shit out of 'em.
You can't tell me that A & B should be viewed as an indistinguishable crime in the eyes of the law. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that 'A' isn't a crime. Maybe assault or something, but not rape. Having identical statutory minimum sentences for those two acts isn't right.
clog our courts. No point in making
people responsible for their own decisions.
Let's focus on this loser while the Bushiviks
rape the Constitution.
So if a previously willing woman suddenly says "stop," and the next day decides that I didn't pull out fast enough for her taste, I get to spend five years in prison?
"Baby began to have sex with her, but the woman said she felt pain and indicated that she wanted him to stop. She said he stopped "five or so seconds" after she made the request."
She was an 18 year old college student. She picked up a 15 year old and a sixteen year old and had sex with both of them in the back of her car. While having sex with the 16 year old, she says "Stop," and he stops in 5 seconds. Then they go eat in a McDonald's. Hours later she tells her Mom and reports a rape. Are you honestly going to tell me that was worth the five year sentence he is currently serving?
What Herakles describes is also asinine. 5 years for 5 seconds is stupid, if it really happened that way.
And not to suggest your rage would be unjustified RCR, but going to prison for murder would be worse for your hypothetical daughter than if she were just raped. Not like that's an easy thing or anything, but being raped and then losing your Dad would be much worse.
It makes allegations of rape even more easy to dismiss on he said/she said evidence ("She voted for the sex before she voted against it").
That in turn means that fewer and fewer rapes (acquaintance or otherwise) will be reported and prosecuted. Rape victims are already aware that their chances of getting any sort of justice through the courts are low; this law drops the odds even further.
Yay RCR, regardless.
Regardless, what is being missed here is the violent nature of rape. Rape is when an individual VIOLENTLY forces themselves on another individual. Otherwise, it is statutory rape, ie coersion, or consensual sex. If there is no evidence of violence in a particular case, there is no rape.
I know many of your minds are already clouded by years of indoctrination, but would you think it fair if your teenage son had sex with a consenting partner, only to be sent to prison for the rest of his youth because his partner was afraid to fess up to her bible-thumping/fascist parents that she liked it just as much as he did?