Syracuse.com
7.15.15 | Marnie Eisenstadt
SYRAC-- -- USE, N.Y. -- Jonathan Taylor has built a database of men who are suing colleges for unfairly accusing them of sexual assault. So far, there are 75 entries. But as other states follow New York's lead with a "Yes Means Yes" policy for sex, Taylor said he expects that number to grow.
Taylor, founder and publisher of the website "A Voice For Male Students," is opposed to the affirmative consent rules that were signed into law in New York earlier this month. They require students on college campuses to get consent at every stage of sex; being passive doesn't count as consent, and consent for one act isn't consent for anything that comes after that.
"A school that defines consent in such a way will unreasonably expand the definition of sexual assault in a way that inevitably punish the wrongly accused and open the door for false accusations," Taylor said.
He said affirmative consent laws overlook the role of body language in demonstrating consent.
Taylor said laws like New York's and California's are not the answer to the sexual assault problem on college campuses.
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