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According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services. Now Natasha Singer reports at the NYT that in an effort to give students additional options — and to provide schools with more concrete data — a nonprofit software start-up in San Francisco called Sexual Health Innovations has developed an online reporting system for campus sexual violence. One of the most interesting features of Callisto is a matching system — in which a student can ask the site to store information about an assault in escrow and forward it to the school only if someone else reports another attack identifying the same assailant. The point is not just to discover possible repeat offenders. In college communities, where many survivors of sexual assault know their assailants, the idea of the information escrow is to reduce students' fears that the first person to make an accusation could face undue repercussions.
"It's this last option that makes Callisto unique," writes Olga Khazan. "Most rapes are committed by repeat offenders, yet most victims know their attackers. Some victims are reluctant to report assaults because they aren't sure whether a crime occurred, or they write it off as a one-time incident. Knowing about other victims might be the final straw that puts an end to their hesitation—or their benefit of the doubt. Callisto's creators claim that if they could stop perpetrators after their second victim, 60 percent of campus rapes could be prevented." This kind of system is based partly on a Michigan Law Review article about "information escrows," or systems that allow for the transmitting of sensitive information in ways that reduce "first-mover disadvantage" also known to economists as the "hungry penguin problem". As game theorist Michael Chwe points out, the fact that each person creates her report independently makes it less likely they'll later be accused of submitting copycat reports, if there are similarities between the incidents.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Saturday November 21 2015, @07:21PM
What a bunch of self-pitying, "please love me, I'm not a complete asshole!" whiny bullshit.
Getting off isn't worth playing games or dancing some dance to someone else's tune. There's a simple solution -- masturbation.
If it's not just physical, and you want someone to share with, man or woman, just be who you are. The people who are worth a damn (to you at least) are those who will appreciate you for who you are. Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I only want to be around people who want to be around me -- and not all of those, either.
And if you find yourself in an ambiguous situation, the choices are simple -- state your desires honestly and respect the response, or back off.
That leaves aside the whole issue of impairment -- if someone (regardless of gender) is impaired, they aren't able to consent. Period. End of story.
Most of the rest is about impulse control. That's a big problem for many people, especially (but not limited to) young men. And that situation is why we have sexual assault laws.
tl;dr: Love and respect yourself. If you don't, why should anyone else? Be with/around those who want to be with/around you.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Marco2G on Wednesday November 25 2015, @01:21PM
If you think masturbation can replace partner-sex, then I pity you... ejaculation does not equal orgasm... If you haven't learned that yet, that speaks volumes about your sex-life.
Also, I doubt you could actually live that self-fulfilling life you're pandering here. Humans are seldom lone wolves. We need acceptance of a group. If you don't think that's true, I suspect any psychologist worth his salt would find sociopathic tendencies in you.
Last but not least, what ever gave you the idea you were a prototype? Just because YOU could do it like you describe does not mean most other humans could or would want to.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday November 25 2015, @05:24PM
I'm sorry, but that's a load of crap. Sounds like you don't know how to masturbate. If you bother to actually practice and get good at it, it is a pretty damn fine replacement for a partner. The trick though is that you have to actually bother to get it right. Anybody can wank off and ejaculate, that's hardly difficult. The difficult thing is getting good enough that you're getting the full benefit.
You have to have a certain amount of patience to achieve a proper orgasm out of it. That means knowing when to hit the brakes and for how long. But, with proper techniques, it's a pretty amazing experience.