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What do you think about the right to consent?

Asked by raum (13206points) November 28th, 2018 from iPhone

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/18/autistic-woman-allowed-have-sex-numerous-men-despite-not-aware/amp/

Should any adult have a right to consent to sex?

What if they have an intellectual disability? Should a right to consent be based on their physical age or their mental age? Is our current system capable of accurately measuring mental age?

Where do caretakers draw the line between responsibility for an at-risk group (women with ID are twelve times more likely to be sexually-abused) and making moral judgements (ie slut-shaming)?

Would this have elicited the same response if the person in question were male?

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