"... all responsibility for the resulting fiasco lies with the other person." ??? Are you kidding me with this? Deception is the fault of the victim? What kind of logic or ethical responsibility is that? This is not about buying a washing machine at a higher price than what is advertised. Switch and bate, while the same in deception, does not carry the weight of physical violation.
I mean, come on here..... Sheeesh!
Anne Marie
Deception is not the fault of the victim. Allowing yourself to be deceived is. My point is that it takes two people to wind up in a bad sexual situation, unless one of them has a weapon with which he forced the other.
If you take the risk of engaging in sexual activities with a total stranger, you take the risk of finding out that the information you didn't bother to get ahead of time is bad. Just because I can argue that one has a moral and ethical obligation to be up-front with potential sexual partners doesn't negate the common-sense obligation of those partners to look out for their own well-being.
You are again assuming that there was some outstanding lack of caution on the part of the receiver. I agree that whenever you decide to have sex with someone you don't know well, there are indeed risks. Especially someone you might pick up at a bar. But the "allowing to be deceived" while it is humiliating does not qualify the deception.
I'm assuming nothing. That is a fact inherently evident in the topic. If you choose to engage in sexual relations with a complete stranger you have just met, you are allowing them the opportunity to deceive you about a variety of things, not limited to their biological sex.
I never said that it wasn't wrong for them to be deceptive, quite the opposite, in fact. What I DID say, and will continue to say, is that it mitigates YOUR right to be pissed off about it or place all the blame solely on them. This is very much a mess created jointly, not singly.
I also agree that the majority of men who play the field would have had enough experience either through word of mouth or the simply exposure to clubing to take extreme precaution in avoiding such an event of possibly pursuing a gender deceptor. But those who do not are those who would face the greatest ultimate humiliation. Like someone who was involved in a long term relationship and was on the rebound, heart broken and in need for companionship. These are the most vulnerable and unsuspecting.
I'm sorry, but if you carelessly place yourself in a position to be vulnerable to this sort of thing, you frankly DESERVE to be humiliated, and you get no sympathy from me. A lack of basic common sense and self-preservation does not make you a victim of anyone but yourself.
Imagine you just broke up with the love of your life, and just when the horizon is a little clearer and you might find what appears to be a wonderful woman, you are infatuated and baaaaaam! It's a guy who just went down on you. Sheeesh!
Sorry, but still no sympathy. There is NO heartstring-tugging situation you can describe for me that will make me think it is okay to defer all such responsibility for one's own well-being onto others. Having your heart broken doesn't relieve you of OTHER life responsibilities, such as holding down a job, paying your bills, taking care of dependents, and it doesn't relieve you of the responsibility to take care of yourself, either.
You know, there is a comical perspective to this. There have certainly been movies about this sort of thing. And it's taken rather lightly for those who hear about such things. I think mostly because folks don't take transvestites seriously, in that they are not considered public enemies, despite the sexual nature of their ambitions.
I take transgenders (they are not transvestites) very seriously, probably because unlike most people, I have actually taken the time to get to know some as people and friends. I find it comical not because of them, but because of the so-called "normal" guy who runs around acting like a horny, leg-humping, indiscriminate cur dog, and then gets his shorts in an uproar because he's been "victimized".
But nonetheless this is a matter of personal integrity and in the worst case scenario, when that home run was hit, it can become a very dangerous game for both people.
If this is really about "personal integrity", then it is my suggestion that the outraged horndog try showing a little.
Human nature is unpredictable and while we have laws that regulate the extent someone might act on emotions, it's largely relative to circumstance.
Anne Marie
Well, gloryosky. So you're telling me you can't count on the law the keep bad things from occasionally happening to you? What a concept.