60s 70s Spireite, on 22 June 2016 - 07:57 AM, said:
Agreeing by choice, and having the freedom and capacity to make that choice.
Plus, of course, a woman has the freedom to say 'stop, I have changed my mind'. Otherwise the man can be accused of rape.
A couple of weeks ago there was a program on channel 4 called 24 hours in police custody, this was all about an alleged rape. There was cctv footage of this woman pretty much leading a man from a bar, and from everything you could see on various cctv cameras she was quite comfortable going back to the mans hotel room, the cctv later painted a very different picture she was very closed and defensive, kept pushing him away, flinched every time he touched her. She reported the man for rape, her word against his plus the cctv footage, a few not too brilliant witness statements, and the B****Y sheets recovered from the hotel room.
CPS decision ? Not enough evidence to proceed with a charge of rape, there was some economy of truth in both original statements but it was very obvious that while both parties had gone into the hotel room of their own free will, something happened in there that went beyond the boundaries of consent, and from seeing the woman interviewed subsequently it had obviously had a very profound and negative effect on her. It's a horrible crime that messes up a lot of lives, very very difficult to prove, almost impossible to get over, and should never be taken lightly.