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Good2Go Is An App For Consenting To Sex
Good2Go Is An App For Consenting To Sex
Want to have safe and consensual sex? There’s an app for that.
Good2Go is a new smartphone application that encourages users to give consent before engaging in any sexual acts. The app targets college-aged adults and its creators from Sandton Technologies hope it will prevent unwanted sexual conduct by facilitating a step-by-step process to ensure both parties are on the same page.
Lee Ann Allman, president of Sandton Technologies, created Good2Go along with seven other mothers and fathers of college-aged children. The idea emerged from conversations with their children and their children’s friends about the overwhelming number of sexual assaults that happen on college campuses all over the country.
So, once a user decides she or he wants to have to sex with someone, the app works as follows:
- Launch and log in to Good2Go and hand the phone to your potential partner.
- Good2Go then asks your potential partner if she/he is ready to give consent by asking “Are we Good2Go?”
- The three answer options are: 1. “No, thanks”; 2. “Yes, but… we need to talk”; and 3. “I’m Good2Go.”
- If the potential partner decides “No, thanks” a screen pops up that says “Remember! No means No! Only Yes means Yes BUT can be changed to NO at anytime!”
- If the potential partner decides “No, thanks” a screen pops up that says “Remember! No means No! Only Yes means Yes BUT can be changed to NO at anytime!”
- If she/he decides “Yes… but we need to talk,” a small bar at the bottom reads “Let’s talk!”
- If the potential partner says they’re Good2Go the app asks if she/he is “Sober,” “Mildly Intoxicated,” “Intoxicated but Good2Go” or “Pretty Wasted.” If the potential partner chooses “Sober,” “Mildly Intoxicated,” “Intoxicated but Good2Go” the user can give consent, however, if she/he is “Pretty Wasted” the app says the partner cannot consent and to give the phone back to its owner.
When asked why the app informs a “Pretty Wasted” user that she/he can’t consent (even though they’re sober enough to be using Good2Go), Allman told The Huffington Post in an email: “If someone answers ‘I’m Pretty Wasted’ the app will not allow an affirmative consent answer even though they probably aren’t at the legal threshold of incapacitation. We have set a higher bar concerning sobriety than the law defines.”
Allman also made it very clear that the purpose of the app is to teach young people “the language of affirmative consent.” “If the app becomes a tool that is adopted across campuses, we believe that it will reduce sexual assaults, unwanted or regretted encounters,” she said.
These days, it seems like there’s an app for everything, so why wouldn’t there be one to facilitate consent? But some are skeptical about whether Good2Go could actually prove effective at combatting sexual assault.
As Slate’s Amanda Hess pointed out the app doesn’t clarify what kind of sex people are consenting to: “Good2Go is obviously a euphemism for sexual activity, but it’s not clear what that means exactly — is it making out, oral sex, vaginal intercourse, or anal sex, and with protection or not?”
When asked about this gap, Allman told HuffPost that, “Affirmative consent should be asked for and given for all sexual acts, no matter what they are. This should be part of the conversation that they will have as part of using the app.”
Molly Mirhashem from The New Republic also criticized the app, writing that “situations where consent is often misunderstood or disregarded — one or both parties being intoxicated, ‘implied’ consent within relationships — will not be addressed with this or any app.”
While Good2Go’s structure could be helpful in making sure that there’s no miscommunication between two parties, it doesn’t necessarily allow for any of the gray area that exists in real life sexual situations and conversations. For example, the app doesn’t address exactly what you and your partner are comfortable (or not comfortable) doing in the bedroom.
HuffPost spoke to the managing attorney of the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) Colby Bruno to find out if the 11-year veteran of the field thinks this app could be useful on college campuses. Overall, she seemed hopeful.
“Anything that helps students get to a mutual understanding is important for consent,” Bruno told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. “If it helps just one student or one couple with understanding what they’re about to do then terrific.”
If young people are willing to use it, Good2Go could definitely signal a step in the right direction.
Bruno put it perfectly, stating: “There are clearly flaws [with Good2Go], but if it brings some consciousness to the issue [of consent] then fantastic. Why not?”
To download the app for free go to iTunes or Google Play.
H/T Slate
Gay Men Try To Explain Tampons, Pads And Diva Cups. Oh My.
Gay Men Try To Explain Tampons, Pads And Diva Cups. Oh My.
We can’t say we were exactly shocked by the results, but watching a bunch of gay guys attempt to decipher feminine hygiene products is entertaining nonetheless.
Buzzfeed asked a bunch of their male coworkers to give it their best, resulting in such colorful comments as, “Literally no idea,” “you can yank it out when it’s done,” and “I’m assuming the Georgia O’Keeffe painting right there is where you target it.”
Tampons and pads are one thing, but there is nothing more baffling than a diva cup.
To be fair, would straight guys do any better?
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St. Louis Circuit Judge Hears Challenge To Missouri Same-Sex Marriage Ban
St. Louis Circuit Judge Hears Challenge To Missouri Same-Sex Marriage Ban
St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison heard arguments Monday on a challenge to Missouri’s gay marriage ban brought by four gay couples who were married in St. Louis by city officials in June.
The couples are Tod Martin and David Gray, Bruce Yampolsky and Terry Garrett, John Durnell and Richard Eaton, and Miranda Duschack and Karen Davis. All but Duschack and Davis attended Monday’s hearings, as The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports. Then Recorder of Deeds Sharon Carpenter performed the ceremonies in Mayor Slay’s office with his consent. Attorney General Chris Koster filed an injunction to stop the marriages. Though he says he supports same-sex marriage, he also commented that he felt bound to uphold Missouri law (the state has a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage passed in 2004).
Koster did not defend the state’s ban in court on Monday. Instead, that duty fell to Assistant Attorney General Jeremiah Morgan. The couples were represented by St. Louis City Counselor Winston Calvert.
Overturning Missouri’s constitutional ban “would at least open doors for the next generation not to have the trials and tribulations that we had,” Garrett [a plaintiff in the case] said after the hearing. “We should be able to decide who we love.”
But Assistant Attorney General Jeremiah Morgan told [Judge] Burlison that Missouri law limits marriage to between a man and a woman. He argued that 71 percent of Missourians voted for that definition of marriage in a 2004 referendum, and the U.S. Supreme Court has time and again allowed states to define marriage.
“It is the state’s, and the people’s, responsibility to make that decision,” Morgan said.
Calvert noted that an increasing number of states are allowing same-sex marriage, including most of the states surrounding Missouri.
“The laws forbid some people from choosing who they marry,” Calvert said. “It’s only gay and lesbian couples that are treated as second-class citizens by the state.”
The AP also points out that this hearing comes just a week after a federal judge “in Kansas City [heard arguments] on a suit filed by 10 couples over the state’s failure to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.”
The ACLU has a pending lawsuit challenging Missouri’s gay marriage ban as well.
Regardless of the outcome in any of these cases, it is almost certain that each will be appealed.
Sean Mandell
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Read This Mich. Democrat's Epic Response to Antigay Group's 'Pile of Excrement'
Read This Mich. Democrat's Epic Response to Antigay Group's 'Pile of Excrement'
‘The Homosexual Lobby has already dug their fabulously manicured claws into me,’ Josh Derke wrote in response to an antigay group’s ‘Michigan Family Values Survey.’
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Marilyn Rosen Talks Marriage, Pink Martini and LGBT Equality (AUDIO)
Marilyn Rosen Talks Marriage, Pink Martini and LGBT Equality (AUDIO)
This week I talked with my new wife, Marilyn Rosen, a symphony booking agent, about our recent marriage, which took place at Scullers Jazz Club before an intimate gathering of 80 friends and family members. Marilyn and I have been together for almost 17 years and began planning our wedding after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional in 2013. Elyse Cherry, CEO of Boston Community Capital and one of the architects of marriage equality in Massachusetts, performed our ceremony. It was a nontraditional Jewish service that included the exchanging of vows and rings and the breaking of glass. The guests were then entertained by the world-renowned band Pink Martini, which Marilyn represents nationally for symphony performances.
Marilyn and I talked about our marriage experience and gave our spin on LGBT equality. When asked about our wedding day, Marilyn stated:
We felt like we shared so much joy, so much pleasure, and so much fun with the people we love the most that it excited us even more. We are also fortunate that we are surrounded by people who believe in marriage equality, who believe in equality on every level, and that the people who were coming were, so to speak, pure of heart and only wanted something beautiful for us, and to share something beautiful with us. We were surrounded by so much love without judgment, without a second thought about who was dancing with who, and it made for just a wonderful evening, a wonderful memory, and these people will then take it out into the world and spread it.
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Marilyn is CEO of Marilyn Rosen Presents, a boutique agency specializing in symphonic and international bookings with an emphasis on the American songbook, Broadway and cabaret, as well as global sounds and nostalgia. A 22-year veteran of the music industry, she spent nearly two decades booking s internationally for artists including Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, Nina Simone, Chris Botti, Chick Corea and Sonny Rollins while developing a new symphony division representing over 20 artists. One of the first groups she signed to her symphony division was the Portland, Oregon-based band Pink Martini, which has since reached worldwide acclaim. In addition to Pink Martini’s staggering achievements, Marilyn has bolstered the symphonic profiles of artists including Ann Hampton Callaway, the Von Trapps, New York Voices and many others.
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For more information on Marilyn Rosen Presents, please visit marilynrosenpresents.com.
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Same-Sex Couple Attacked in Minneapolis
Same-Sex Couple Attacked in Minneapolis
A man allegedly attacked a same-sex couple with a BB gun in a well-known LGBT bar in Minneapolis last week.
HRC.org
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