2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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Zorlond
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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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Badman! wrote:But tell the cops that an half naked woman entered in your bed, chances are they will laugh at you, espescially if your a guy...
That's an entirely different ball of wax. Being a guy and saying "A woman just raped me" is pretty much laughed at the world over, regardless of whether or not it's true.

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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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Fen wrote:French law:
Sexual exhibition is punishable by 1 year imprisonment and 100,000 francs when committed against any minor under 18 years old.
That must be a really fun law to enforce in what half the rest of the world thinks of as The Land Of Topless Beaches.

Actually, I'm going to guess that it means - or would only be triggered by - stuff like actually having sex in front of kids. Plus, I suppose it gives a cop something to quote when stopping a couple from getting a bit too hot and heavy on one of those topless beaches.
And I'm not sure whether this would qualify.
Conviction of corruption of a minor is punishable by 5 years imprisonment and 500,000 francs
That sounds like one of those Victorian laws that are too vague to enforce these days, or something to be used against actual child abusers.
Oddly enough, I can't seem to find anything about sexual exhibition over 18.
That's the kind of thing that comes under "Indecent Exposure" in UK law. I don't know if the term translates.

(Fun fact: until a few years ago, one of the main laws used against pornography vendors in the UK was one that was originally enacted to stop veterans of the Napoleonic wars from exhibiting their war wounds to obtain sympathy while begging on the streets.)
And of course, if you consider rubbing your naked body against an unconscious person sexual assault (as you should, really)
Punishment for sexual assault other than rape is 5 years and 500,000 francs when committed on a victim aged 15-18 years old.
<grouchy old fogey>I thought that kids today called that "dancing".</grouchy old fogey>

But honestly, "sexual assault" implies some kind of intent. Try getting a 25-year-old woman arrested for drunkenly stumbling into the wrong bedroom and accidentally giving a 17-year-old boy the thrill of his young life, and the most likely charge you'll see is probably Wasting Police Time. Especially when the chance of the guy in question raising a peep of complaint is somewhere around -273 degrees centigrade.
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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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french law is in "general public places" (downtown restaurant, in front of city hall) and not designated area (semi nude beaches, nudist camp)

in the news, some protesters were arrested for indecent exposure for going top nude(breast showing) when a politician was arriving at a building(I think a hotel or a convention place)
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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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Fen wrote:French law:
Sexual exhibition is punishable by 1 year imprisonment and 100,000 francs when committed against any minor under 18 years old.
Francs? What arr theese "francs"?
Spidrift wrote:But honestly, "sexual assault" implies some kind of intent. Try getting a 25-year-old woman arrested for drunkenly stumbling into the wrong bedroom and accidentally giving a 17-year-old boy the thrill of his young life, and the most likely charge you'll see is probably Wasting Police Time. Especially when the chance of the guy in question raising a peep of complaint is somewhere around -273 degrees centigrade.
Well, be fair, it probably isn't Alex who anyone thinks would make the complaint.

[Then again, Lavali said she wasn't going to make a complaint against Zoe, albeit in a passive-aggressive manner, even before the latter bought her off I suppose.]

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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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I don't think that Lavali is quite that pissed off with Sandra yet. And Marie would be split between her worship of Sandra and her thing for Alex, so she'd blame Alex. And Sandra is the one who's naked, so she can't charge Alex with the form of "assault" under discussion here.
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Re: 2015-06-12 I'm not that drunk, y'know

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wiseguy wrote:french law is in "general public places" (downtown restaurant, in front of city hall) and not designated area (semi nude beaches, nudist camp)

in the news, some protesters were arrested for indecent exposure for going top nude(breast showing) when a politician was arriving at a building(I think a hotel or a convention place)
Yeah, and most of these were those half hysterics women activists called femen throwing herselves at important public personnality...

Don't mean any judgement for those activists, but these kind of laws are used when you piss important powerful people, not just any muggle...

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