Hugs, neck rubs could be ‘sexual battery,’ says university.

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Hugs, neck rubs could be ‘sexual battery,’ says university.

Are you a hugger? Do you sometimes give neck rubs to friends or acquaintances just out of friendliness? Well now you could be accused for sexual battery and expelled at East Carolina University.

All it takes is for one person who is scared from the sexual assault portion of orientation or who has friends with certain ideologies to ruin one’s life at ECU, thanks to a new policy recently adopted for the new semester going forward. . . .

Any contact, “however slight,” is considered sexual battery. Of course, it’s the accuser who decides whether it is sexual battery, and with the current pressure on colleges and universities to capitulate to accusers in the name of political correctness, any friendly contact is subject to an investigation.

Today’s university administrations — like the Victorians, but without their positive attributes.

 

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[rocketeer50]

It is a pretty dumb policy.

The new policy describes sexual battery as “the intentional or attempted sexual touching of another person’s clothed or unclothed body, including but not limited to the mouth, neck, buttocks, anus, genitalia, or breast, by another with any part of the body or any object in a sexual manner without their consent.”

There are some long-term legal principles that should be kept in mind. A "battery" is an unconsented-to touching. It doesn't matter how light a touch it is, the battery is completed when contact is made and it was without consent. A battery doesn't necessarily mean an actual physical injury (although many imply such when they use the term). An attempted unconsented-to touching is an assault, not a battery. A missed swing with a fist can be an assault. This announced policy apparently was not reviewed by a competent lawyer.

A sexual battery is simply an unconsented-to touching that has an obvious sexual intent. A subjective belief by the touchee that there was sexual intent does not make it so. What "in a sexual manner" amounts to is, as always, a case by case factual determination. These fuzzy college policies make the "preponderance of evidence" standard dangerous.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Colleges have to over do it because kids are dumb and take everything to the extreme and parents are worried about their princess being all alone with all those penises and beer.
Doesn't make it right but they gotta cover their asses like anyone else.

 

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[Noor]

I don't like to be touched by strangers or non intimates, esp. of opposite sex.
I react badly to unwanted hugs, neck rubs very disturbing.

People should know better than to touch another person without permission.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I don't like to be touched by strangers or non intimates, esp. of opposite sex.
I react badly to unwanted hugs, neck rubs very disturbing.

People should know better than to touch another person without permission.

^^^ That this even needs to be pointed out and is not understood innately, is proof this forum is a den of utter idiocy.

 

[lovecraft68]

^^^ That this even needs to be pointed out and is not understood innately, is proof this forum is a den of utter idiocy.

You proved that a long time ago you sexist asshole.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't like to be touched by strangers or non intimates, esp. of opposite sex.
I react badly to unwanted hugs, neck rubs very disturbing.

People should know better than to touch another person without permission.

I agree. I wouldn't think of just walking up to a co worker or someone I didn't know that well and hugging them or giving them a shoulder rub. I wouldn't want it done to me either.

If you touch someone without permission you're in the wrong and that ogoes for either sex.

The double standard being few guys would complain of a friendly hug from a woman, but then again they don't have to worry about being raped by said woman either.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

You proved that a long time ago you sexist asshole.

When you claim that women are superior to men you automatically throw away your right to accuse anyone of being sexist. You fucking dickless white knight.