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Rape

In Australia you can’t rape someone any more. What you can do is have sexual intercourse without consent.

Then they spend a long time defining sexual intercourse and consent.

Consent is complex. It’s the vibe of thing that’s left up to the jurors.

For example, coercion implies there was no consent. But it depends on the type of coercion and the state of the victim.

For example, drunkenness in the victim implies coercion. But drunkenness in the perpetrator offers no immunity.

My guess, the pendulum will swing too far the other way and a bunch of blokes will do time for very little

It’s as hard as making bullying illegal. One person’s bullying is another’s water/duck.