Good2Go App Promotes Consent, Unbearable Awkwardness

A new app called Good2Go is designed to make obtaining a partner's consent for sexual consent easier, by making it incredibly awkward. According to Mashable (link below), the app turns the act of asking a partner to engage in physical activity into a something akin to a customer service survey.

The goal, according to its creators, is to reduce the number of "regretted encounters," by "facilitating clear communication and expectations." It does this by forcing users to get potential partners to answer an app-based questionnaire to gauge their level of interest and sobriety.

Users hand their phone (the app is available for iOS and Android) to a potential partner, who is asked whether he or she is indeed "Good2Go."

The potential partner can respond, "No, thanks;" "Yes, but ... we need to talk;" or "I'm Good2Go." Responding no triggers a warning to the phone owner that "no means no," while "Yes, but ..." prompts the two parties to talk things out first before proceeding.

Responding "Good2Go," on the other hand, prompts a follow-up question about how sober your are (sober, mildly intoxicated, intoxicated but Good2Go, or pretty wasted). Any answer but pretty wasted asks the person to then provide their phone number to confirm they are indeed sober enough to consent. The pretty wasted choice then informs the potential partner that they are not able to consent.

This all seems a little weird and Orwellian in a way, just the kind of thing millennials embrace. It logs the phone numbers of everyone who consents to sleep with you, making it like some 21st Century version of a little black book. I'm all for obtaining consent, just ask my lawyer, but this seems like the weirdest way imaginable to go about doing it. 

Via Mashable