I don't think he should have reassured her at all.

Considering the fact that I'm not even sure they're certain that blood can transmit the prions involved, they're just being paranoid, but that they *know* infected neural tissue can...

I can't give blood, I'm a potential carrier of this. Or at least so I've been told. Lived in Europe in the late 80s.

It doesn't. But it also doesn't say he's 37 either.

He stopped. He reassured. She re-consented, this time explicitly.

For a lot of women it does.

Except that in many states, two fourteen-year-olds fucking each other is not statutory rape.

*You* interpreted that because of the title, tone, and subject matter of the posting. Namely, starting out with the word 'rape' gives you the context of 'I worry about rape'.

I love the word 'manties'.

And I shouldn't be able to simply based on semantics. Consent is more than a three letter word.

And then, maybe they just feel regret. It's hard to prove what *feelings* they have, and even then *feelings* have no actual bearing on the legality of the situation.

No, she never said the word yes, but neither did I the last time I had sex.

Ambiguous consent happens all the time, and it's entirely consensual. Hell, non-vocal consent happens all the damn time. If she's participating, mimicking the actions of a willing participant, vocalizing assent, not running, not fighting, not saying no, there's no reason for said guy to think she's not a happy,…

Oh, completely confusing. Which is why this whole topic is always a clusterfuck of arguments. Normal people can't imagine themselves raping anyone, so they can't imagine anyone else raping anyone, and thus "drunken sex" doesn't feel like rape to them.

Proving sex would have happened anyway is impossible.

So... "ok" is not yes? Sounds like assent to me.

And if the guy was fourteen years old? He too was intoxicated. They both said yes. This isn't as clear cut as Jezebel is making it.

Which is the *exact* situation every man imagines when he reads about a woman talking about how she had sex while drunk and now regrets it and wants to call it rape.

Some. Some think like that. And the real issue is that "mens rights activists" is such a bland phrase that it could be applied to both good and bad people. And thus, if anyone actually *does* advocate for mens' rights in a sane way, they're branded under the same banner.

Which is about as offensive as declaring that all feminists are trying to suppress men.