If you both get drunk and your date takes advantage of you, that's reprehensible, but *not* the same thing -- because rape is an inherent act of violence, whereas the other may well be people acting on their lusts without inhibitions.
Hmmmm. Surely the key concept there is "may"...? A drunk person is certainly capable of withholding consent (or indeed giving in to a demand for sex from fear of reprisal, violent or otherwise...)
I can't say I've ever seen anyone equate "drunken consent" (emphasis "consent") to "rape", although technically it's an interesting point - compare to, for example, the way society views drunken consent to buy highly expensive goods or services one doesn't need... (thinking about the consumer law concept of "unconscionable conduct" here; specifically actions against those who sell to vulnerable persons known to be drunk, drugged or medicated at the time they signed up to whatever... )
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Date: 2008-12-18 08:46 am (UTC)Hmmmm. Surely the key concept there is "may"...? A drunk person is certainly capable of withholding consent (or indeed giving in to a demand for sex from fear of reprisal, violent or otherwise...)
I can't say I've ever seen anyone equate "drunken consent" (emphasis "consent") to "rape", although technically it's an interesting point - compare to, for example, the way society views drunken consent to buy highly expensive goods or services one doesn't need... (thinking about the consumer law concept of "unconscionable conduct" here; specifically actions against those who sell to vulnerable persons known to be drunk, drugged or medicated at the time they signed up to whatever... )