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Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by viraptor on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:16AM (#26501174)
> To protect yourself from the "yes .. yes .. okay, no" dilemma

Why protect yourself? Why is this a dilemma? If you stop when asked, it's not an assault.

If you're worried about this, you're worried about false rape accusations, not some dilemma about people changing their mind. "if you're not checking for continued consent every few milliseconds" is an imagined problem taken to extreme. People who actually change their mind during sex will tell you about it and not treat it as assault.

Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by oilbagz on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:22AM (#26501196)
Because withdrawn-consent can be used offensively. False rape accusation do happen and have resulted in many, many ruined lives - of people who legitimately and honestly thought they had consent, where the court later did not agree.

Ignorance of this fact doesn't support your argument.

Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by viraptor on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:26AM (#26501227)
I don't disagree false accusations happen. I'm saying that it's shitty to bring them up when a legitimate change of mind is discussed. Yet people keep popping up whatabouting this one, like someone's just waiting to accuse them of something.
Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by oilbagz on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:34AM (#26501283)
False Rape Accusations are a form of abuse. Rape is also a form of abuse. They are not equivalent, but can certainly lead to the same order of life-destruction magnitude in either case.

Both of these things are relevant in the discussion of consensual sex, and I disagree with your attempt to elevate one position over the other.

Rape is bad because it negates a persons agency over themselves and denies them their basic human rights - false rape accusations also deny a person their basic agency and human rights.

Best way to avoid either case: just don't have sex, i.e. learn the value of abstinence.

Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by kolinko on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:05AM (#26501443)
If you want to make a change in society, you need to consider the risks invilved.

It’s important to see how prone to abuse is a new law that will be introduced.