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In reply to the discussion: What motivates the outrage over Julian Assange's Political Asylum? [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)to accept consent?
You need to get out more if you haven't noticed yet that I quoted from the transcript of the police interview with Sofia Wilén, regarding the only allegation that has been characterized as "rape".
Consent is given in different forms. One test of lack of consent is that an accused cannot "reasonably" have assumed that consent was given. If you share the bed with someone throughout the night, making love over and over again, you might well "doze off" for a moment in a cloud of bliss. Normally, that doesn't mean you have objections to feel your partner near or "in" you another time. As is obvious from the quote, Wilén actually didn't have objections and continued with the sex once she was fully awake, even though she was a little miffed that her anxieties regarding STD were not met in the way she had planned it. I guess it's possible that Assange also didn't cut his toenails the way she might have liked it, who knows.