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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by pluma on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:01AM (#19899311)
Let's put it this way:

If I tell you to take a fiver from my wallet and you do it, that's consensual. If you then later take another fiver out of my wallet without my permission, it's not consensual. If I catch you doing it, I might still be okay with it but that doesn't mean it wasn't non-consensual when you did it.

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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by Godel_unicode on Monday May 13, 2019 @11:26AM (#19900220)
What if, instead of your wallet, it's a box by the door labeled "cab fare" and it's been previously discussed that this box is there for people in the house, me included, to use when catching a cab to the train?
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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by zepto on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:05PM (#19900651)
Do you think the two are equivalent somehow?
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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by Godel_unicode on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:24PM (#19902217)
It's a metaphor. In this case, for prior consent given in the most explicit terms possible to bound the discussion.
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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by zepto on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:42PM (#19905638)
Sure - but in the case of sex, the equivalent is a written agreement to have sex while asleep at at a specified time and place with a specified person.

Your cab fare metaphor is a very misleading illustration of this.

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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by sweeneyrod on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:20PM (#19901447)
Well, that would be different, because women aren't objects labelled "for having sex with".
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