I love that you're opening up this discussion. It's an extremely important one. I have no answers, but I do know that someone who can't read context clues will struggle, which definitely feels unfair. In addition they, themselves are at increased risk for sexual violence perpetrated against them, which is horrifying.

But I also have a very close family member who was the victim of molestation by a man with a mental disability for many years when he was a child. Nobody believed him, so it was allowed to continue. He struggles with daily life after living through that.

I'm not sure if the man's mental disability is relevant in this case, but your article certainly brought it to mind and I thought it might be something that needs to be considered.

If a man truly cannot read signs and body language, is he at higher risk for crossing boundaries much worse than making someone uncomfortable? Statistics show he will commit sexual violence against others at about the same rate as someone who does not have a mental disability.

It's usually obvious when someone is lacking social skills due to an impairment of some kind, and I try to always extend far more patience in that case, but I think it can't be left unmentioned that statistically women can't pretend there is no risk.