Re:Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side
by QAPereo on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:03PM
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Or to rephrase, it took sobering from the cocktail of illegal drugs to realize what had happened. Or it took getting away from the people who allegedly raped her to, etc. The risk of coercion is real, and much of the reason for the jurisprudence around consent.
Give people enough drugs and put them under enough pressure, and you’ll get in some of their pants. You might even get something that sounds like consent, but is it really?
I completely agree that consent can be revoked or modified and that nobody should be passed around like a joint against their will. That's not what the article is describing though, at least not in my reading. The young woman who went to the party did consent, the whole way through, and didn't revoke or modify her consent until she decided to leave, and when she did, she left, presumably unimpeded. Furthermore, neither the woman in question nor the author of the article called this rape, so for you to imply otherwise seems a bit inappropriate.