“Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that makes California the first in the nation to have a clear definition of when people agree to sex. The law goes further than the common “no means no” standard, which has been blamed for bringing ambiguity into investigations of sexual assault cases.”*
What exactly is consent to sex? “No means no” has left a lot of loopholes in rape and sexual assault cases, but Governor Jerry Brown of California has made it all much clearer with “Yes means yes.” What does it mean? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more from NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/29/352482932/california-enacts-yes-means-yes-law-defining-sexual-consent