Rush Limbaugh Quotes

At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with - women as well as men do that - but I don't understand violence.

How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.

His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?

I love this new world, I no longer have to be politically correct .... It was too trivial to be considered anything of significance. To call it a sexual assault is not based in reality.

When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.

When I say there is no such crime as date rape I am saying what is true. There isn't a specific legal category of date rape and I wanted to make that point in order to ensure that people don't use this to obscure the difference between real sexual violence and, you know, things that have gone wrong.

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog.

Anyone should have the right to say no if they don't want someone to kiss them or touch them or date them or anything.

You don't ever have to feel pushed into anything.

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.

The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to our party on Saturday night." She, of course, shows up. He hands her two, three, four, five drinks. She becomes so inebriated he says, "You can sleep it off in my room. It'll be safe." Or, "I'll walk you home." It's all premeditated with the intention of having sex with that woman without her consent when she's passed out. It's a huge issue.