Man who does not understand consent has right to pursue sex, court rules

The Guardian ^ | Thu 3 Oct 2019 02.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 3 Oct 2019 10.48 EDT | Amelia Hill

[jonascord]

The court of protection has ruled that a man who cannot understand the issue of consent must be allowed to pursue sexual relationships.

Mrs Justice Roberts ruled that the man, who has autism with impaired cognition and lives in a supported residential placement, has a “fundamental right to sex”.

The court considers issues relating to people who might lack the mental capacity to make decisions.

A clinical psychologist submitted a report saying that the 36-year-old man, referred to as JB, represents a “moderate risk” of sexual offending to women, particularly to those who are vulnerable, and that JB cannot understand that a woman’s consent is relevant in sexual situations, nor that attempting sex without consent is likely to be a criminal offense.

However, the judge said that insisting that JB understands the issue of consent before being allowed to pursue sexual relationships would be discrimination because it would “impose on him a burden which a capacitous individual may not share”.

[ptsal]

Small screen fat finger
And cruel autocorrect
Anything is possible

[Hebrews 11:6]

Now is the time for such a focus. Is anyone attempting to achieve it?

[jazminerose]

As long as they don’t have bump stocks.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

UKIP is, unfortunately, they’ve been utterly eclipsed by Farage’s Brexit party, which is soley focused on Brexit and nothing else, plus the UKIP party is cursed with a high level of amateury that whilst possessing the right values, cannot competently run a party which begs the question, could they run a country when they can’t run a party?

OTOH I do think Boris Johnson the PM does believe in things like freedom of speech based on all his comments in his media collumns back when he was a journalist, and he has been a victim of leftist censorship so he knows what it is like. Whether he can actually do something about it once Brexit is done is another matter. Our best hope for regaining our freedoms is a Tory majority with BoJo at the helm and he can start reshaping the country in the image he believes in.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.