Sexual consent was much easier back when Rush Limbaugh was coming up. In those days, “seduction” used to be “an art” and “no” really meant “yes.”
Today, schools like Ohio State — which recently agreed to strengthened its policy on sexual assault — have changed the rules of student sex. Limbaugh doesn’t understand this concept.
Reports TIME:
Rush Limbaugh is so sick of the “modern” definition of consent. When a girl says “NO,” she actually mean NO. But that’s just crazy talk, according to Limbaugh.
“How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that ‘no’ means ‘yes’ if you know how to spot it?” he asked on “The Rush Limbaugh Show” Monday. “It used to be used as a cliché.”
Really? Was it?
Limbaugh then read off Ohio State University’s definition of consent, which outlines how two people should behave once they have decided to engage in a sexual relationship. It states that you and your partner must agree to engage in the activity every step of the way, including agreeing on “why” you are doing so. But that just sucks all the fun out of it, Limbaugh said.
“Agreeing on the ‘why’ takes all the romance out of everything!” he said. “Seduction used to be an art, now of course it’s brutish and it’s predatory and it’s bad.”
And there you have it.
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