@hawkeye10,
Quote:You see this too in the demand that we cant be sexual after drinking or doing drugs. If they get away with this next up will be forbidding us from being sexual if we are not in our " right mind", what ever they determine that to be.
A lawyer wouldn't let you sign your Last Will and Testament, and consider it valid, if you were in those states either, because there would be legitimate concerns of whether you knew what you were consenting to, regarding distribution of your assets, in that document. A court might also regard any contract you signed, while in an impaired state, as invalid.
In the case of sexual assault laws, the requirement of consent is obviously to prevent unwanted sexual contacts, and someone who is intoxicated by drugs or alcohol, or impaired by cognitive deficits, or emotional disturbance, or mental illness, may not be fully aware enough to understand what's going on, or to consider consequences, or to give knowing consent, or even to offer resistance. The purpose of the law is to stop you from having sexual contact with individuals in such a state, it is not to stop them from consenting, it is to stop you from sexually exploiting them and sexually assaulting them.
No one is telling you that you can't engage in sexual contact with another adult, who is fully aware and alert, cognitively unimpaired, and freely and willingly consents to the sexual contact activities you wish to engage in.