College Students Told to Take Photos With a ‘Consent Contract’ Before They Have Sex

National Review ^ | 07/08/2015 | Katherine Timpf

[SeekAndFind]

A “yes means yes” advocacy group, the Affirmative Consent Project, is instructing college students to take a picture with a contract before they have sex with each other just to make absolutely sure both parties are officially consenting.

In fact, the group has been distributing contracts to schools nationwide as part of its Consent Conscious Kit, according to an article in the Washington Examiner.

If no camera is available, students are encouraged to fill out the form on the back of the contract which states, “On this date [fill in the blank], we agree to have consensual sex with one another” followed by a space for students’ printed names and signatures.

The kit also also includes breath mints and a condom.

The state of California passed a law requiring all colleges that accept state funding to adopt policies requiring all students to obtain affirmative consent — which it defines as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity” that is “ongoing” and not given when too drunk — before engaging in sexual activity, or else risk punishment for sexual assault. (The University of Minnesota also plans to adopt a similar policy later this month.)

Now, in case you think taking a photo with a contract before having sex would be going a bit far with the whole make-sure-you-have-proof-of-affirmative-consent thing – you’re wrong. In fact, it’s not going far enough.

After all, affirmative consent policies demand that consent be given repeatedly throughout the entire encounter and that both parties be sober enough to do so. So, just because someone consented when they signed the contract doesn’t necessarily mean that they were consenting the entire time. And, as Ashe Schow points out in the Examiner, a student could always claim she was too drunk to know what she was doing when she signed it.

In fact — aside from testing and recording blood-alcohol levels and then repeatedly signing a contract throughout the entire sexual encounter while also taking pictures or video as proof that you were signing it — it’s kind of hard to think of anything that could exonerate an accused student under these standards.

— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like free love.

[AppyPappy]

Even gay couples?

[Gaffer]

The people that advocate all this nonsense have no business being out free in public, let alone being given access to the media to spew their idiocy out like vomit.

[Huskrrrr]

Also taking a picture with a big “No” before the date might help too.

[albie]

No picture = rape...I guess.

[thefactor]

I need to get married so I’ll never have sex again. Who needs the headache?

[Gamecock]

So those selfies go viral. Isn’t that a potential privacy issue? How long before somebody sues over that?

[Yo-Yo]

The state of California passed a law requiring all colleges that accept state funding to adopt policies requiring all students to obtain affirmative consent — which it defines as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity” that is “ongoing” and not given when too drunk — before engaging in sexual activity, or else risk punishment for sexual assault.

So how drunk is too drunk? Is there a BAC number to define "too drunk?" Do they now have to obtain a certified breathalyzer test result along with the photographed consent form?

[Sasparilla]

Next up, a requirement to video everything.

[Vigilanteman]

When I was a pup, we had a consent contract called marriage. It worked out pretty well for those who honored it.

We actually had more sex and better quality sex than the bar cruising crowd, believe it or not. It wasn't even close.

[BRL]

Wasnt the original consent contract a marriage license? In a funny kind of way this is an admission that cree sex is dangerous.

[uncitizen]

Lol

[moovova]

Sad to think it has come to the point that this is actually GOOD advice.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

So, if she changes her mind before the sex starts, he gets a get out of jail free card? Because that is the unintended consequence of this stupid idea.

[Blue Jays]

That is so totally spontaneous and HOT!

[uncitizen]

Then you should marry a mexican because as the saying goes

Once you go Mexican, you’ll never wanna have sex again

[Jeff Chandler]

Pictures of what, exactly?

[Mr. K]

AND they will need to know who is the pitcher and who is the catcher in the gay contracts! lets INSIST on that

[stars & stripes forever]

[The Affirmative Consent Project, is instructing college students to take a picture with a contract before they have sex with each other just to make absolutely sure both parties are officially consenting.]

That was once referred to as a marriage certificate.