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In reply to the discussion: According to your opinion, are non consensual cavity searches a form of sexual assault? [View all]bunnies
(15,859 posts)50. non-consentual searches are not legit.
Unless one is taken into custody.
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According to your opinion, are non consensual cavity searches a form of sexual assault? [View all]
ZombieHorde
Aug 2013
OP
You equate giving your doctor permission to check your prostate to being pulled over and assaulted
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#35
Advice (yours): I think you need to do some research about rape, including talk ...
Koios
Aug 2013
#28
My experience has ranged from being groped to beaten and raped so don't try what you are trying to
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#40
"consent to personal search is pretty subjective"? So "No" can mean "yes"?
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#42
The bottom line is NO ONE HAS ANY RIGHTS AT ALL as long as cops think pot smoking may be involved.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2013
#7
"The fundamental conceit of the drug war is that the government owns your body and can tell you
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#39
If you manipulate or touch my sexual parts without my permission, how is it not
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#23
Because I'd have to interpret the act of searching as sexual intercourse to make it fit the statute.
JVS
Aug 2013
#27
So if a guy does not ejacultae, it can not be rape? Is this what you are asking?
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#22
Thanks for the in depth answer. I guess my issue is that sexual assault can and is not about
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#38
man, i knew before i opened this thread, there'd be some fool defending this shit...
KG
Aug 2013
#46
You'd better be under arrest, in a sterile facility, and the search performed by a medical
MADem
Aug 2013
#51
If some random stranger on the street did it, would it be sexual assault?
RedCappedBandit
Aug 2013
#56