Nicholas Dixon's 'Alcohol And Rape'

Nicholas Dixon in his writing, “Alcohol and Rape,” claims that there are established methods to determine what can define rape and impaired sex. However, there might be specific actions and motives that can complicate the two definitions, which results in unfair conclusions for the people involved in the sexual act. I find this claim likely because there might be certain circumstances in which rape and impaired sex cannot be determined.
The complications involved in trying to determine impaired sex and rape are that both the terms depend on the act that was committed. Rape in my own understanding is when person A wants to treat person B’s life recklessly and without consent in order to achieve sexual pleasure. Person A would need to have any type of sexual intercourse as their prime motive, and they have no intention in asking person B for consent, knowing that they will refuse. Obviously, rape and alcohol play a major role together; it can be used as the weapon of malice in order to help person A make sure that person B is in an unconscious state. …show more content…
Some of those difficulties are events in which a female, for example, becomes so intoxicated that she forgets about the consent she gave the night that the sexual intercourse occurred. Punishing a man for having sex with someone who was able to give consent but later forgets about it, would overall be unfair. I argue in defense of the people who are punished for being involved sexually with a person who irresponsibly drinks too much and allows someone to have sex with him or her. Communication is fundamental to sexual intercourse while intoxicated, because one can determine culpability simply by what they understood the intoxicated person saying. Dixon mentioned that it is best to avoid having any sexual intercourse with anyone while they are intoxicated to avoid any unnecessary