War on Women Still at Orange Alert

The Maryland courts have ruled that a woman cannot withdraw legal consent after intercourse has commenced.

I actually get the impulse behind this. As much as we'd like to believe it's so, consent isn't always necessarily transparent, and of course things get cloudier once things get grindier. And from a legal standpoint, I understand that it makes things tricky if someone has consented to sex and the sex has begun before she withdraws her consent.

I totally get that. I do.

But to say that once sex has begun a man doesn't have to listen to "no" is just mind-bogglingly stupid. And dangerous. And to frame it as protecting the rights of the accused is cynical and offensive.

Presumably a man still has the right to withdraw his consent after intercourse has begun.

It's called pulling out and going to sleep (it's my "patented move").

Presumably men aren't going to be legally forced by this new legislation to stay awake and satisfy their partners ('cause I've got an early morning) just because they gave their consent before intercourse commenced (when I wasn't so tired).

So, apparently this law is only designed to compel the receptive partner to participate in sex as long as the penetrative partner wants it, and not the other way arounf. It's designed to legally compel the physically weaker to submit to the demands of the physically stronger.

That's swell.

There has to be a better way to deal with what is admittedly a difficult legal situation.