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| + Steve | Feb 10 2018, 04:57 PM Post #1 |
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With all these apps and ridiculous rules for when sex is consensual or not, do you think it's possible that how we have sex and generally make physical contact will be completely different and unnatural, perhaps even by law? Society is getting to be in a rather weird place, people(mostly men) are becoming more and more afraid to touch others for fear of breaking some nonsense rules people apply to intimacy or being falsely accused of sexual assault over nothing, like a pat on the shoulder. And with this whole #metoo thing people have a crazy amount of power to ruin somebodies life as they'll have thousands of people backing them up regardless of context. This is the sort of thing I can only see getting worse so how far will it go? Could it get to the point where other people start reporting couples for not expressing consent in their own relationship? I can see stuff like that happening if these stupid consent apps become popular, like you'll be able to connect to others so friends can see if you consented or not and if you both just forgot to even check the app people will claim sexual assault most definitely happened and reputations are ruined before any sort of damage control. Social pressures will make people use those apps more and more if they get popular now, since if you refuse to use one...well you're probably a rapist! Pretty scary thoughts all round I think, if this does continue future relationships will be very odd indeed. Imagine being scared to get close to someone physically for such stupid reasons. But by far the dumbest thing of all...is that rape is still going to happen anyway. If anything it'll probably get worse because how we interact with people will become so dysfunctional and robotic. And this isn't totally relevant but I just seen that a lollypop man here in the UK apparently quit his job because the Council told him not to high five kids anymore since that could be "grooming" apparently. The moral of the story is...be afraid of everyone! physical contact between you and another human is danger. Edited by Steve, Feb 10 2018, 04:57 PM.
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| + Emmeth | Feb 10 2018, 05:10 PM Post #2 |
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I think this is true for famous people. However I don't think much of what's in the news happens to regular people, so I won't say it's gonna be a norm for people to be afraid to have sex with someone. It's very easy to see if someone wants to have sex with you or not. Just don't be a dick and force yourself on someone. |
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| * Mitas | Feb 10 2018, 05:22 PM Post #3 |
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Quick Google search linked me to the BBC News article. It wasn't because it could be considered grooming, it was asking him to stop and 'concentrate on ensuring highway safety'. It was overturned, anyway, after parents complained. (Edit: Turns out that was a different news story that happened at the same time, my bad.) I've never heard of the consent app thing you mentioned. Is it even that popular? Or just an idea somebody's proffered that may or may not take off (I'd bet on it not taking off). Your point about other people reporting couples for not consenting is a non-issue. Even if that were to start happening (which I feel is more of a slippery slope-type thing than an actual possibility of becoming a regular occurence), the couple could just say 'nah, everything was alright' and it's done and dusted. As far as physical contact goes, it's not being changed too much. At least, not for the worse. People shouldn't be touching other people outside of the right context anyway. Most people are able to judge when it's appropriate and when it's not and the vast majority of the time they're right. On the occasions they aren't right, isn't the point of the movement to get people to say 'hey, I wasn't comfortable with that', and isn't that a good thing? For relationships, and being scared of getting close to somebody and worrying about consent, again, not really an issue. You have a girlfriend, so you must be pretty aware that people in relationships are a) generally OK with their partner touching them and b) generally OK with kindly telling them to do one when they're not in the mood. Healthy relationships anyway. Edited by Mitas, Feb 10 2018, 05:28 PM.
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| Tinny | Feb 10 2018, 05:41 PM Post #4 |
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The answer is no, and any other answer is oblivious at best and purposeful dissemination of misinformation (rhyming!) at worst. Sure you haven't noticed any notable changes with your own partner right? I have not noticed much either. No one has murdered much, it's simply outlets relying on outrage and stoking fears preying upon worries you have regarding society, and they are a far greater danger than any manufactured consent hysteria. |
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| + Steve | Feb 10 2018, 06:50 PM Post #5 |
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Well of course, but change like this doesn't happen overnight, it's a budding thing right now. The thing is though, it's largely young people who are thinking like this, college campuses in the US and such are ripe with these thoughts and attitudes, the scaremongering and such. Do we have any reason to believe they'll just snap out of it at some point? Because if not, they're a future generation that has grown up thinking this way, and they'll pass that on to any children they might have and so on and so on and it's extremely easy for them to get media attention over it, take any high profile sexual assault case and you can get people thinking about this. And generally a massive amount of support.
It's obviously worse for rich people but it can still happen with regular folk. For instance say a janitor at a school gets accused of sexually assaulting a woman, people are obviously going to want him fired to protect their kids, just in case. Regardless of whether or not it's proven anything happened. I think this #metoo movement can easily spread down the ladder, it's an easy mindset to scare people with, if you would dare defend the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" you're branded a "rape apologist" I doubt there's many companies out there that would risk their public image by continuing to hire someone hundreds of people are claiming is a rapist and demanding they get fired. |
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