German Lawmakers Approve 'No Means No' Rape Law

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Betonov

One question ??
Why was this passed in 2016 and not in 1870

I think that ''a third no is a legitimate pepper spray in your face'' law would work better. But that's just my opinion man.

Pepper spray being the mildest option.

Originally Posted by Skybird

There are some implications which make this complicated, and most people are not even aware of it. From the law's standpoint, if you execute it pedantically correct, any man taking the initiative for approaching a woman to form a contact of first kind, for example in a bar smiling at her and asking whether he could spend her a drink, must fear to be sued for that as long as he took the initiative. If the law gets adopted by the full range of implications in it, it must now always be the women taking the initiative. Radical feminists might be happy with this, but what does it tell you beyond the obvious - that one and the same act done by a man puts him with one leg into a court, while the same act done by a woman - smiling at him in a bar or asking if she could pay him a drink - shall have not any legal threats involved?

Like so often these days, intentions that once were meant well now overshoot the target, get abused for ideological agendas, and may do more bad than good.

And why even importing the many sexual offenders from a certain other culture that now in Germany as well as in Sweden is massively over-represented in crime statistics describing sexual harassment and rape? Some days ago I read in the news here in Germany that an Iraqi migrant has slain his wife and told the court that he just practiced his legal right to do so, and that he cannot understand why he is being sent to prison.

Well. If one even must explain what does not match here, then all hope is lost indeed. Like in other European countries with massive Muslim influx, Sweden being just one example, the number of sexual attacks and harassment even of little girls in swimming halls and in public has exploded. The German police just days ago complained that German politicians still do their best to prevent fast and effective forced removal of according subjects. And the German public: lets them get away with it and does not care.

Well, things are like we deserve them to be, then. And we deserve this speed-typed law as well. Something better we could not appreciate anyway.

Being In Germany, you probably have a better perspective on this issue then those of us who reside elsewhere in the world. I'm thinking this piece of legislation is not an attempt to prevent people from conversing in a bar or other public places in the furtherance of making contacts or new friends. I'm thinking this is to give women some added protection with regards to men being aggressive in an overtly sexual manner.

In countries with a civilized people, No should mean just that-NO. Most men are gentlemen and take the hint or simply move on. I think the newly enacted laws are for protection from the small minority who don't have the wherewithal to understand No means No.