The Problem With Consent Is That It's Possible to Be Raped Within Marriage

I think it's also absolutely the case that any we are forced to draw bright lines when it comes to the law. There is a huge amount of gray space between what is legally permissible and what is good, she says. Women who would talk about distressing sexual experiences which actually didn't meet the legal threshold for being criminal but which they nevertheless experienced often involving alcohol as you say briefly on that point. Men tend to overestimate a woman’s sexual interest in them and that bias is is exaggerated by alcohol so you have men who are very drunk and who really do read signs of sexual interest from women who are in fact not sexually interested in them or incapacitated by alcohol.