Alcohol's Effects On Sexual Perception: "Alcohol And Rape"
In Dixon’s consent to alcohol he explains his views on why a man should or should not refrain to sex when her alcohol levels are up. His arguments follows:
In a case where a woman’s judgment has been significantly impaired by alcohol, a man cannot be reasonably sure that the woman consents to sex. Dixon explains in his text that if a woman consumes alcohol in a bar or fraternity party that her blood levels are high up the roofs he should refrain to having sex. We don’t know if what she said was the truth or not because alcohol makes you do crazy things or say things you didn’t meant to do. If he should pursue having sex, the woman can declare rape the next morning because she did not consent to having sexual relationship with whomever she slept with.
When a man cannot be reasonably be sure that a woman consents to sex, he should refrain from having sex with her. Here he is saying that if a woman consumed alcohol but not as much to the point where she doesn’t know what she is doing he should refrain from having sexual relationship. For example, when a woman goes to dinner with a man and drinks small amounts of alcohol to where she is mentally and physically stable. He isn’t quite sure but then takes the risk and asks her to come to his place and stay the night, she then agrees to his offer because she knows that, as Dixon says, “She is not drunk and, impressed by his gentle and communicative manner”. However, he doesn’t know that then the next morning she could regret having sex with him.
So, in cases where a woman’s judgment has been significantly impaired by alcohol, a man should refrain from having sex with her. Here he explains that a man should refrain from having sex with her when her judgment has been significantly impaired by alcohol because her actions can mean something else the next morning. For example, in his text Dixon explains when a woman consumed too much alcohol but claims that “she knows where she is and with whom she is speaking or dancing. She ends up spending the night with a guy at the party”.
And the next morning she horribly regrets her decision to go home with him in which the woman’s judgment is significantly “impaired by alcohol”. Then considers to be raped the next day for taking advantage of her for any reason.
In Dixon’s first argument I would have to disagree; yes, a man cannot be significantly sure if the woman wants to have sexual relationship even when she’s consumed by alcohol. However, what we don’t know is what if her intensions before she went out to get drunk was to hook up in the first place and to have it more exciting or easy to have it is through alcohol. Not every woman is the same, some woman like sex and their intensions is pure to have it in the first place without any violations. A man should however be aware to know when a woman wants to have sex. To know whether her consent to have sexual relationship is pure is to through her friend’s actions. One girl can be really drunk that the alcohol overwhelm her actions and once the guy pursues her and starts being touchy with her, usually her friends will pull her away from the guy because they know that her actions before she came out to party and get drunk weren’t to have sex.
Another way to find out if a woman will consent to sex while intoxicated is asking her friends directly. Every girl shares anything to her closes friends and if her intensions was to have sexual relationship then the man can pursue her and she will give the consent not only through her but her friends.
No matter what happens, as adults, we are responsible for our own actions and we should be more responsible to what we do and find out what the outcome are. If something bad happened then we should take responsibility to whatever outcome should come because we could have prevented it from happening in the first place.
