If She's Been Drinkin' Watch What You're Thinkin'

A scary little piece from an Evening Standard site on how the British Home Office will announce new guidelines on rape that say "a woman would be considered incapable of giving consent to sex if she had been drinking heavily." This would allow...

"Police....to carry out blood and urine tests on a woman who complained of rape to find out how much alcohol is in her body. They would then used "back calculations" to work out how drunk she was at the time of the alleged attack.

A "drink and sex limit" would sweep away the confusion and controversy in the courts surrounding the issue of when a man accused of rape can claim he believed a woman gave her consent to sex."

Doesn't this send more then a few terrible messages to the British people, the first being that the ongoing alcohol problem is now reaching crisis proportions.
Secondly what does this say about the state of personal responsibility in Britain and the way that that responsibility is apportioned vis-a-vis the sexes.Women are being told that in some situations that their consent is not really their consent, at least in sexual matters. Men may well wonder why if women are apparently functioning in a state of diminished capacity at times, how then are men suppose to know when those times are? Are they to carry around Breathalysers with them whenever they go out? Does a man who has had sex with a drunken woman have any responsibility if he was also drunk at the time?
It puts the man crazy, rather tipsy Brigitte Jones in a rather different light.