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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Just as a reminder, the law exists for protection, and consent isn’t always verbal.
If you think the law is saying you need to ask your long term partner with whom you already share mutual respect, trust, and understanding if it’s OK to do every single thing you’re doing every single time you’re doing it, you’re probably overthinking it.
This is far less complex and consent is request/granted in far more natural, straightforward ways than people are making it out to be. If the concept of consent is hard to grasp in your own life, this is a problem.
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Deep down (or not so deep) these five guys know the answer. Because they're human and as social creatures we inherently are adept at understanding cues, with only special exceptions.
We may disregard those cues (as these individuals did), but our gut can tell us pretty reliably based on body language, verbal expression, facial cues, among other things. Our entire evolution has revolved around social dynamics because it was our means for survival. And correctly interpreting others often meant living or dying. So yeah, over many generations we fine tuned that ability.
We may, some of us, be pretty dull in ways. But that isn't one. We're extremely and inherently good at appraising other people.
That it's trying to be logic-ed down to its basic components, devoid of the non-verbal aspects that are pretty universally recognized and understood by humans, shows that certain people are willing to play extraordinarily dumb to uphold their age old tradition of boys will be boys even in the face of significant wrongs committed.
So yeah, like you say. If consent is that hard to grasp then something serious must be awry.