Amirmotazedi's Real World

It's not as if you have to sign a consent form to have a sexual relationship.

But if you've been drinking and don't want to be accused of rape, or you've been drinking and just can't say no, then informed consent is something to talk about. Informed consent is what the judge is looking for in rape cases. Legal sex, for there is such a thing, has to be consensual. If you're under the influence, there can be shades of gray.

Informed consent implies sobriety for contracts, too. A person is less informed as the blook levels get higher, is the thinking. We miss details when we're drunk, and we're easily influenced. Our inhibitions, our rational selves, go bye bye.

That or we forget the information right away. Or we might not care. Caring is key to avoid regret, guilt, anger, and humiliation.

It isn't that surprising that reality television has its share of regretful participants, people who signed away consent, liability waivers, before the cameras started to roll. But most people don't sue. One woman, however, in a recent episode of MTV's "The Real World" is suing producers for $5 million.

She's saying that she was plied with alcohol and ridiculed when she refused to have sex with one of the show's cast members.

Golzar Amirmotazedi is suing Viacom, MTV and Bunim/Murray Prods for a number of things, including invasion of privacy and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Apparently she was thrown out of a house in Washington, DC and later portrayed on the show as crazy, emotionally disturbed for not playing along, not having sex.

According to Reuters and Yahoo, online comments called her a "crack whore" and Andrew's "crazy stalker chick."

Bullying everywhere!

But not so crazy, refusing to have sex for reality television.

It's ironic that even if you refuse to have sex, refuse to be raped for television (the show must go on), you can still be raped emotionally, bullied.

Perhaps there is no such thing as privacy if you consent to let the cameras roll. The courts will bat this one around, assuming Ms. Amirmotazedi doesn't settle. She signed liability waivers, claims she was inebriated at the time.

If she proves that, then the floodgates are open. We'll hear more stories like this one.