wedrifid comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 March 2013 10:20:35AM *  2 points [-]

That ... sounds like it would predictably overestimate the amount of rapes. Unhelpful though this may be, not everyone has adopted "enthusiastic consent" in their day-to-day lives.

I, for example, occasionally merely agree amicably to have sex, without any enthusiasm. (For example if it the third time that day.) I think I've even agreed reluctantly at some point. Yet I haven't been raped and anyone who tried to tell me I had been raped because I did not give "enthusiastic consent" is both wrong and grossly disrespectful of me and my right to make choices about what I do with my own body.

Comment author: MugaSofer 05 March 2013 03:34:30PM 1 point [-]

In fairness, they would probably just add you to rape statistics without telling you. Much less offensive.