Oz Law Protects Drunken Hos

When a man and a woman have consensual sex after a few glasses of wine, he can easily be charged with sexual assault afterwards if she regrets the encounter. So says a new law in Australia.

The word blowjob will most likely begin to mean something else in years to come: the act of a woman blowing into a breathalyzer before sex, to prove to the man that her blood alcohol content is below, say, .05 percent. (He'd better record the results, too, if he wants to stay out of trouble.)

Note that, as I understand the new law, it's a one-way street: he is deemed likely to want to rape her; she couldn't possibly have sex with him against his will, though.

It's been drilled into male skulls for the last quarter century that 'No means no.' Now it turns out that sometimes, 'yes' can mean 'no' too.

The difference between getting laid and getting arrested has never been this precarious.

P.S.: Further proof of the apparent wussification of Australians — or maybe just of the fact that Australian media know how to spin dumb scare stories out of thin air just as well as their U.S. counterparts — is provided by this newspaper article.

Shaking the hand of a politician is more dangerous than you think, with dozens of gastro and respiratory viruses transferred in just one grip. As Mr Rudd clocked up almost 1000 handshakes in one day in Brisbane last week, the germs on his hands — which are cut from the incessant contact — are multiplying. Up to 80 per cent of all infectious disease are passed on by human contact — just one square centimetre of skin contains more than 1500 germs. Mr Rudd or Mr Howard's hands could be carrying gastro viruses such as salmonella, rotovirus and resistant strains such as pneumonia.

What, no black plague or Ebola?

There are no known victims of political handshakes, but there are thousands of ways that politicians do actual damage with ill-thought-out policies and unnecessary laws. Regardless. Why worry about government waste, parliamentary stupidity, and judicial outrages, when you can get the delightful heebiejeebies that ensue when you fantasize about what might live on John Howard's palms?

P.P.S.: I'm wondering if Illinois State Rep. Mary Flowers, a certified germophobe who wants to mandate handwashing statewide, could help. Perhaps she can pioneer legislation that bans her fellow politicians from going on hand-shaking & baby-kissing tours, and that instead orders them to get some actual work done.

I'd vote for that.

Comments

[Martin Owens]

And then they wonder why guys get mail order brides from Russia....

[ttt]

you understand wrong, rape laws always protect PEOPLE regardless of their gender.