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Police and volunteers deliver “no consent, no sex” message in CBD
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Officers from the Auckland City Police Adult Sexual Assault Team, along with volunteers from partner agencies whose objectives are to prevent sexual violence and abuse, will be out and about in the CBD tonight to deliver the message “No consent means no sex”.
Police have produced postcard sized pamphlets and will hand them out to patrons of various licensed premises with the aim of drawing attention to the effects of alcohol on decision-making and reiterating the responsibilities of friends to look after each other.
Posters conveying the same messages will also be distributed to bars for display in rest room areas.
Acting Detective Sergeant Greg Brand says the overall aims of the exercise were to encourage all agencies concerned with sexual assault victims to have a holistic approach to it and to actively try and prevent incidences of it.
Officers and volunteers will be out and about between 10pm and midnight.
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I understand the pamphlets tell people that if a prospective partner’s speech is slurred then they can’t be seen to give consent. So if an attractive woman propositions a young man when she’s a bit tipsy and he agrees to have sex with her, she can later be seen not to have given consent and he stands to be imprisoned for 20 years. That’s what Section 128A of the Crimes Act allows and it provides an unlimited number of other ways in which consent clearly given can later be retrospectively defined as not given…Far from preventing incidences of ‘sexual violence’, ‘sexual assault’, ‘sexual violation’ etc, these pamphlets are touting for police business (much safer business than confronting gangs and real criminals), encouraging women to think they were victims of sexual violation … with respect to any men unfortunate enough to accept their invitations. [Abridged]