Spain's Yes-is-Yes Law: When Does Consent Become Policing Behaviour

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Recently, in 2022, Spain passed a 'yes-is-yes' or 'only yes-means-yes' law of consent, saying that sexual consent can only be given when a woman gave a firm yes to sex. This was after five men raped an unconscious 18-year-old girl in 2016 and were not given appropriate charges.
While I absolutely agree with the importance of sexual consent, I worry about what this could mean for future harmony between the sexes. To what extent could this law lead to policing of human behaviour? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

➤ Article on Spain’s ‘Yes is Yes’ law: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/26/spain-only-yes-law-sexual-consent/

➤ The often incorrectly cited ‘1 in 4 women are raped’ statistic includes ATTEMPTS OF rape, attempted assault, and indecent exposure: https://rcew.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/documents/Statistics_about_sexual_violence_and_abuse_-_sources_RCEW.pdf

➤ 2018 Scottish study: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-43128350
➤ 1985 Boston study: https://archive.org/details/licensetorapesex00fink/page/204/mode/2up
➤ RAINN statistics on rape perpetrators: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence

Marital rape laws by country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_laws_by_country
https://www.theweek.co.uk/98330/when-did-marital-rape-become-a-crime

Women’s desire for sex in long-term relationships tends to wane:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/9/e016942
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/women-get-bored-sex-long-term-relationships/582736/

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