Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Brownshoe]

(05-10-2016, 02:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 1.  I can not show you a case because the law has just recently evolved.  Why do you think they would remove that language if there was not a change in the law?

2.  You don't have a clue about contract law.  A binding contract does not have to be "premeditated" at all.  There just has to be an intent to form a contract.  

Just because they removed some of the language doesn't mean that it means what you want it to mean. You can say the law is still new, but the article GMDino linked was in 2013 and it said it changed the language and yet... there's still not even ONE case that supports what you're trying to say.

Yes, it doesn't have to be premeditated, but there's a big difference between a legally binding contract and sex. I see the similarities between consent to contract and consent to sex, but it's all very superficial in the real world, given the different evidentiary standards, burdens of proof, etc... between civil (contract) and criminal (rape) law. It's kind of a nice little intellectual exercise that a layperson would come up with and present as fact of both their intellect and rhetorical sophistication, but no real attorney in court draws these cutesy little comparisons, because it's a false equivalence.