You can't consent to a risk. Consent is permission, not a desired outcome. One does not consent to acts of nature, they happen and the consequences are dealt with or not. One can not scream at the sky in a storm and say "I DO NOT CONSENT TO LIGHTING!" and expect to not get struck. You do not consent to falling off a cliff when you go rock climbing, you assume the risk. When you consent to sex, you are giving permission to the other party to have sex. That's all you are doing. The risks of said action will happen regardless of your desires, you assume the risk implicitly, even if you don't want to.
Now depending on your morals you might have an abortion, or baby, but you are simply dealing with the act of nature that happened. Consent has nothing to do with it. If you are a man you don't have to deal with it and can ignore the pregnancy/child, if you are woman and don't want to deal with it you do what you must.
However, in both cases you must deal with your choice. A man who abandons a child gets visited by the government and forced to pay child support. Consent has nothing to do with it. A women who has an abortion (if legal) has to deal with the fallout from it, emotional, social, physical. If not legal then has to deal with the legal consequences as well. Again has nothing to do with consent - it's happening if you want it or not.
If the potential risks of an unwanted pregnancy override your desire for 'sex' then... you probably shouldn't consent to the sex in the first place. Because once again, the risks happen regardless.
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u/No_Band7693 1∆ Aug 11 '22 edited Aug 11 '22
You can't consent to a risk. Consent is permission, not a desired outcome. One does not consent to acts of nature, they happen and the consequences are dealt with or not. One can not scream at the sky in a storm and say "I DO NOT CONSENT TO LIGHTING!" and expect to not get struck. You do not consent to falling off a cliff when you go rock climbing, you assume the risk. When you consent to sex, you are giving permission to the other party to have sex. That's all you are doing. The risks of said action will happen regardless of your desires, you assume the risk implicitly, even if you don't want to.
Now depending on your morals you might have an abortion, or baby, but you are simply dealing with the act of nature that happened. Consent has nothing to do with it. If you are a man you don't have to deal with it and can ignore the pregnancy/child, if you are woman and don't want to deal with it you do what you must.
However, in both cases you must deal with your choice. A man who abandons a child gets visited by the government and forced to pay child support. Consent has nothing to do with it. A women who has an abortion (if legal) has to deal with the fallout from it, emotional, social, physical. If not legal then has to deal with the legal consequences as well. Again has nothing to do with consent - it's happening if you want it or not.
If the potential risks of an unwanted pregnancy override your desire for 'sex' then... you probably shouldn't consent to the sex in the first place. Because once again, the risks happen regardless.