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"Some people believe that when you go to bed with somebody, take off your clothes, and have sex with them and then fall asleep, you're already in the sex game with them.
"It might be really bad manners not to have tapped her on the shoulder and said, 'do you mind if I do it again?'
"It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning."
Rape Crisis said the MP's understanding of what constituted rape appeared to be "factually incorrect" and that if the woman concerned was asleep when the sexual encounter began, consent could not "reasonably" have been given.
"Having had consensual sex with a woman once does not give a man licence to then have sex with her again at any time and in any way he pleases and assume consent is given"
The top part of the above quote is by George Galloway who is taking a bit of stick in the media this morning. But is he right?
If you have sex with a woman (or man), spend the night in her bed, then insert your penis into her vagina in the morning while she is asleep, is this rape? If you've already had sex with this person are you, as Galloway suggests, already in the "sex game" with them?
