'Yes Means Yes' Isn't the Answer

"The word "yes" or its equivalent is meaningless when it comes from someone who has consumed so much alcohol that she or he is slurring speech, having trouble walking, or vomiting. And this is the case in a majority of sexual assaults: According to the Harvard School of Public Health, one in 20 college women experience sexual intercourse without their consent during the course of a school year, and 72 percent of those cases occur when the victim is too drunk to consent. Focusing on the word "yes" as the key to getting sexual consent is dangerous in colleges’ hookup culture, where most victims are too intoxicated to say yes or no or, in some cases, even to be aware of what is going on...."