This is prompted by the Laura Huteson thread.
For those who haven't read it, Laura was killed by Jason Gaskell. He severed her carotid and jugular (using a knife he kept under his pillow for use, so he says, in "sex games"), then claimed it was a sex game gone wrong. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has got six years. This is only one such case recently - in another recent case, a woman was strangled by a man she'd met in the bar that night who claimed to have been engaging in consensual "breath play" gone wrong. (With a man she'd only just met. As my Scottish mother would have said, "Aye, that'll be right...")
Anyway, I've started a separate thread because I have a suggestion of a practical nature, for some activism. It struck me that if I were a younger woman and still dating, I'd be tempted to make out a sworn affadavit, saying that my tastes in sex were very vanilla, and if my dead body were to be found, having been strangled, anally penetrated and/or cut with a knife, and the defendant claimed that it was a sex game gone wrong, then the bastard would be lying because there was no way I would consent to that. Any lawyers out there know if such a document would carry any weight?
Do you think there would be any mileage in trying to persuade young women to make such a statement as a political act? As a way of saying "Men are getting away with murder here. No more. We want them to know that in the event of our death, we will still be able to speak, and let the legal system know 'I did not consent'."