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I know this sounds weird but are we getting to the stage where you need some sort of legal agreement before you have sex with someone. I knew someone who after taking loads of drugs had sex with someone, regretted it and accused that person of rape. I don’t really know what to make of this particular thing but I’m pretty sure drunk people have sex and condoms fall off all the time, how are we to know that person deliberately removed the condom?

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> legal agreement before you have sex

A contract that codifies trust? Once this would have been marriage. I don't know what it is today.

This legal agreement idea does not work at all. In most cases this agreement would have an expiration, only include specific actions and most likely could be withdrawn unilateral at any time. This makes an agreement basically worthless. The fact that people bring up technological solutions for social problems shows their inability to understand the messiness of social constructs.

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