A description of a man performing sex acts on an unresponsive woman would have raised a lot of red flags for most of us: Is she conscious? Is she too drunk or too afraid to speak up? If the supposed victim is a man, these questions vanish or become a sort of tired parlor joke. Banzhaf's selection of this particular hypothetical is an obvious one. News & World Reportabout the new California law requiring colleges and universities to adopt a 'yes means yes' standard for their sexual assault policies.
That’s the way George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf spoke to U.S. This may seem bizarre that a guy who is presumably laying back and having oral sex and one assumes enjoying it-or at least tolerating it-is not consenting simply by doing that, but under that definition if he didn’t say 'yes,' she’s a sexual violator.
When they are, the language often looks something like this: In news coverage of campus sexual assaults in recent years, scenarios with male victims aren’t depicted too frequently.