NO MEANS...TRY AGAIN? What is sexual consent? Now we're told "affirmative consent" must be "enthusiastic" and ongoing. That's the language from a new California law, and it is policy at many universities. But this is nonsense. Men and women Stossel interviewed often admitted that many women want to play "hard to get."
MATTRESS GIRL: Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz says another student raped her, but Columbia did nothing about it. For months she's carried the mattress she was allegedly raped on everywhere to raise awareness over the school's failure to expel the boy. A Columbia judicial board has heard the case twice and both times ruled the boy innocent.
WRITTEN CONSENT: As an absurd example of "legal consent," Stossel's producers drafted a silly sexual "consent form" to see if students would be willing to sign it before they had sex.
Most students saw the absurdity, but some students say it doesn't go far enough!
THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT! While our contract was a joke, others are deadly serious about it. Some promote a new app, Good2Go, which says this: "When you are ready to ask a partner they consent to sexual activity, just launch the app and provide the phone to your partner.
"Your partner is presented with the question, "Are you good to go?" and three choices. If the partner chooses "I'm good to go," then they also assess the sobriety level. If the partner chooses "pretty wasted," the selection changes to "no thanks."
KIDS DOING IT YOUNGER: Contrary to what the media say, kids are not doing it younger. The age of first sexual activity is later than it's been, and teen pregnancy rate is the lowest it's been in decades.
REAL OR FAKE? Some states have really bizarre sex laws-so bizarre, you wouldn't believe they were real. Stossel quizzes "The Independents" hosts Kennedy, Matt Welch, and Kmele Foster to see if they can tell which laws are real and which ones were made up by John's staff.
For instance:
In Massachusetts...
Sex between u
