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Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity over Hermoso kiss (www.theguardian.com)

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Fifa has suspended Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities following his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final in Sydney

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[–] HedonismB0t@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Except is exactly fits the legal definition of sexual assault.

[+] too_high_for_this@sh.itjust.works -19 points 10 months ago (14 children)

legal definition

For what jurisdiction? There's not one legal definition. Every country, and every state in the US, has their own definitions.

My state, for example, defines it as (paraphrasing) unwanted contact with intimate areas for the purpose of sexual gratification or humiliation, or to intentionally harm. It's a bit subjective and open to interpretation, but there's no way anyone would get convicted under this statute for a short, closed-mouth celebratory kiss.

Again, it's assault, and it's gross and inappropriate, but it doesn't meet all the elements of sexual assault.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault

Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person's consent.

The only person I ever kiss with both hands on their head is my wife, when I am being intimate with her.

[+] too_high_for_this@sh.itjust.works -20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

in a sexual way,

Did you skip over this?

A kiss is not inherently sexual. Is a mother's kiss incest? I have a picture of my nephews kissing, is that CP? Hell, dudes in some parts of the world kiss their friends, on the lips, as a greeting.

Gross and inappropriate conduct isn't automatically sexual.

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Stop the cap, mate. It wasn't a mother kissing their child or a friend kissing another friend. It was a grown fucking man, kissing a grown fucking woman. They obviously aren't friends or lovers. Ofc it's sexual, doesn't matter if 'not all kisses are inherently sexual, this one was.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Did you miss the part where he's never kissed a man like that? His country has had lots of men being presented with great accomplishments. He has awarded those men those awards without ever kissing them like he does here

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