What does Maybe mean?

In Sep­tember, Cal­i­for­nia be­came the first state to en­act a “yes means yes” law man­dat­ing that stu­dents ask their part­ners for “af­fir­ma­tive, conscious and vol­un­tary agree­ment to en­gage in sexual ac­tiv­ity.” That agreement, the law notes, is “on­go­ing through­out a sex­ual ac­tiv­ity and can be re­voked at any time.”

In response to this news, the Phi Delta Theta chapter at Texas Tech Uni­ver­sity dis­play­ed a ban­ner that said “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal” for which they were suspended, according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s right… that was actually printed in the Journal. That is not something I expect to read while having a light breakfast in the morning. They obviously realized it was the only thing in that story actually worth reading.

That agreement, the law notes, is “on­go­ing through­out a sex­ual ac­tiv­ity and can be re­voked at any time.”

While that seems absurd, if it gets revoked in the middle of the act, you're obviously doing it wrong.

And this law raises some other questions. What if right as you were about to ‘finish’ she revokes? Pull out? Could she legally defeat you in court? That could be a dirty court hearing. A real sticky situation. Couldn't you claim that you thought she was saying "know"?

This law sounds like a way to turn potential rapists into likely murderers. Don’t the people who wrote this law know that once the train gets going, it can't just be stopped on a whim?

If No really meant No, there would be no such thing as safe words. Case closed. That law is unconstitutional.