If the Home Office have their way (see what I did there?), soon you’ll pretty much have to halt your drunken fumbling to fill in a watertight multi-page paper confirming both parties consent to sexual intercourse. Nothing like legal documents to make you randy.

Quoted from the article:
“Mr O’Brien said that redrafting the law would stop cases being thrown out by judges and increase the number of convictions.”

I note that there’s no mention in the article of a revision to the law that reduces the number of false accusations. Just increase the convictions. Never mind if they’re actually guilty of anything, let’s get the number of rape convictions up.

Imagine - or don’t - that Anna Slacktrousers gets hammered one night and wakes up with Jimmy Plateface. Anna can’t believe she’d sleep with such a fat, grotesque mess. Therefore, he must have raped her. Yeah. Got her blind drunk and he forced himself on her. Or maybe, just maybe, Anna is a whore. A whore who has such a high opinion of herself that she doesn’t remember that she dropped her linen quicker than her morals the previous night in a freakish, unshapely concourse that would have sickened even the most hardened Internet porn addict.

Of course, I do not mean to make light of rape. But how can you prove or disprove rape when the accuser can’t remember if they consented or not?

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