A new app for Android and iOS tries to assist two parties in getting ‘affirmative consent’ for sex, but it doesn’t fulfill all of the many clauses of the California Affirmative Consent Bill. (Maybe it says something about the practicality of a law if you can’t write a computer program to tell you if you’re breaking it or not…)

Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:

Sign Your Own Rape Confession With Good2Go ‘Consent’ App

With just days left before California Gov. Jerry Brown signs (or vetoes) the state’s pioneering “yes means yes” sexual consent bill for colleges (SB 967), California students may be wondering how they can possibly prove after the fact that their sexual partners gave consent.

Enter Sandton Technologies, the developers of Good2Go (not to be confused with Washington state’s toll-pass program), a mobile application for Android and iOS platforms. Its Google Play page promises that it will make sure both of you give “affirmative consent” for each sexual encounter, and confirm that you can consent:

Good2Go App includes a sobriety questionnaire so that both parties know if affirmative consent can be granted. If the partner who is being asked if he or she is “Good2Go?” is too incapacitated, consent cannot be granted.

Reason‘s Robby Soave, a former College Fix colleague who earlier this year called for the creation of such a consent app, is singing the praises of Good2Go after playing with it. Sorry, Robby, but I’m going to burst your bubble:

This app is worse than nothing if you want to protect yourself from false allegations or miscommunications in the heat of the moment. Based on its promises, it could conceivably violate federal law as well.