Of all the nations in the developed world to be affected by the plague of politically correct bullshit that has swept across the world, Sweden was always a leading contender to be the first to have its collective sanity totally destroyed.
In the latest amendment to sex-related criminal legislation in the Scandinavian country, the Swedish national assembly has passed by a large majority (257 to 38 votes) a bill that sex without clearly expressed and formal consent, verbal or in a distinct body language, equals rape, even if no forceful action is involved.
Intelligent people will immediately see the problem there, how can body language, which must always be interpreted and thus is open to subjective interpretations, ever be described as 'clearly expressed.' Even the most senstive of us can easily misread certain signals, especially when both the signaller and interpreter have had a few drinks. The other point is that if somebody motivated by personal mailce claims they did not give consent, it is going to be devilishly difficult to prove in a court case that they did.
The new law, which is due to come into force on July 1, has stated that clearly expressed consent is the only condition for consensual sex.
In justifying the move, the Swedish government said the incidence of sexual offenses was on the rise in Sweden, with young women facing the biggest risk. There is of course no chance at all that the brainwashed Swedes will ever publicly admit that the increase in rapes and other sex crimes is due to the huge number of assaults committed by Muslim immigrants on European women.
According to Amnesty International, the updates to the existing legislation make Sweden only "the 10th country in the world" to admit that unconsented sex is virtually a rape. Beliefs that rape has to do with physical coercion and force are "outdated" and have caused ‘immeasurable harm,’” the human rights movement said in its comments on the new law. Which is of course bollocks, how can there ever be virtual rape? Can there be virtual murder? The more the law falls under the influence of stupid, incompetent leftie ideologues the more crimes will become defined in such stupidly vague terma. Law must be clearly, precisely defined so it cannot be abused by agenda driven political activists in the legal system.
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