{"id":5019,"date":"2017-11-19T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/rules-for-men\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T11:35:04","slug":"rules-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/rules-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Burgess-Jackson offers<\/a> six items of sound advice, each both prudential and moral. Here is #1:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don't touch a woman without her specific consent. Consent, to be <\/em>consent, must be informed. Don't resort to trickery, subterfuge, dissimulation, or manipulation (including getting her drunk or high).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would add a qualification: unless she is your wife and you have a loving relationship<\/em>. (And if you don't share a loving relationship, why are you still married to her?)<\/span><\/p>\n

That is a good point about the nature of consent, by the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say that the above, even with my qualification, is a rule of thumb<\/a> (rule of hand?), which is to say that it is broadly accurate. <\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you are seated opposite a woman not your wife whom you find attractive and with whom you are enjoying a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate<\/a>. She strokes your hand. She has given you a signal that may justify your touching her in a similar way even without explicit consent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prudent? Moral? The near occasion of sin? You decide!<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, don't be an Al Franken. Where is his hand<\/a>? And what can be inferred from the gal's 'goosey' expression?<\/span><\/p>\n

  \"Franken's<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Keith Burgess-Jackson offers six items of sound advice, each both prudential and moral. Here is #1: Don't touch a woman without her specific consent. Consent, to be consent, must be informed. Don't resort to trickery, subterfuge, dissimulation, or manipulation (including getting her drunk or high). I would add a qualification: unless she is your wife and you … Continue reading “Rules for Men”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}