Colleges Think Women Having Sex Is Dangerous. Laura Kipnis Says They’re Wrong

Shortly after I graduated, I was taking a couple of CS courses at a local college that was affiliated with one of the mainstream Protestant churches. I discovered that 1) There was a $50 fine for walking on the grass and 2) If two people were caught having sex on campus, it was an automatic expulsion, even if the two people were married. (I didn't discover this by getting fined or kicked out.)

A few years later, at a southern state university, I had the experience of having my driver's license taken by the RA before I could visit with a friend in her women-only dorm room. It was like the rest of the world was a man library, and my card was being filed away like a book in a 1980's library.

What this whole thing about consent issues tells me is that the promise of the sexual revolution and free no consequence sex is bullocks.

Is it sexual harassment when someone gets someone to have sex with them by taking advantage of another's vulnerable state, or giving false promises, or has un-consented anal or other sex acts when only vaginal sex is consented to. How clear does a woman have to express lack of consent when in the heat of the moment?

These are not questions with easy answers and their inherent vagueness encourages jilted women to make these claims, horny men to act in ways that encourage these claims, and leaves administrators and officials straining to effectively and fairly evaluate these claims.

The way Western culture and Western sexuality and the expectations surrounding it are set up is pretty much geared for these sorts of sexual harassment cases to come up.

This is not a perspective you hear a lot in the mainstream, either from the right or left. It's refreshing.

"feminist paternalism" is a good description.

I wonder how much VC money you could raise for a block chain based consent app. Basically, it allows two or people to agree on consent for specific acts then at the end of the encounter everybody can verify nothing nonconsensual occurred. If anybody disagrees, it automatically calls the police so everything can get sorted out while evidence and memories are fresh. Everything is saved to the block chain so it cannot be modified.