Australian universities are becoming unsafe for young men due to the risk of false accusations of sexual assault, sex therapist Bettina Arndt told a right-wing conference in Brisbane on Friday.
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Ms Arndt was speaking at LibertyFest, described as a two-day conference of "genuinely dangerous and disruptive ideas" organised by LibertyWorks, an organisation which advocates for a drastic reduction in government control.
Ms Arndt has attracted student protests during her appearances at universities during her "Fake Rape Crisis" tour, which was in response to the Human Rights Commission's report on sexual assaults on campus.
The report revealed up to one in five students were sexually harassed at university.
Speaking to an audience of about 120 in Brisbane, Ms Arndt disputed the report's findings, arguing it showed there were very few sexual assaults on campus.
Ms Arndt said she believed universities were increasingly becoming unsafe places for young men - rather than women - because they risked false accusations.
"They can be accused by women who are suffering from regret sex or women who are feeling bad because they ended up having sex with the wrong person," she said.
"Or annoyed that he didn't want to take it any further - she thought it was the start of something wonderful and it turned out to be just sex.
"Or embarrassed because they were too drunk to know what they were doing."
Ms Arndt argued a deliberate part of the feminist campaign since its early days was about demonising male sexuality and reigning in "any sign of normal, lusty sexual drive in men".
She said women's responsibility was encouraged in other aspects of life.
"Think about women who get drunk and get behind the wheel of a car and kill a pedestrian - she's expected to be responsible for that, she's culpable for that action," Ms Arndt said.
"Where's the logic in not regarding women in any way responsible if they get drunk and make stupid decisions, exposing themselves to sexual harm.
"Now I'm not victim blaming, of course the man must be held responsible if he ... deliberately takes advantage of a drunk woman, but we don't hold back from talking about risky behaviour when it comes to other crimes."
Ms Arndt criticised the idea of "enthusiastic consent", being investigated by the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.
"'Can I kiss you? Can I touch your breast? Can I keep touching your breast?' Unless you get 'yes' every inch of the way, you can be accused of rape," she said.
"That means most of us are having illegal sex most of the time."
Ms Arndt recalled a television program she guest-produced in the 1990s to provide a different perspective on the "no means no" campaign.
"I had no problem getting women who would talk about the fact that they didn't convey no clearly, they deliberately got totally pissed so that they could get carried away and not have to make a decision about whether they wanted to go to bed with a man on a particular occasion. It was much easier to just let things happen," she said.
"Or they talked about playing games and saying 'no' initially, wanting him to push through that resistance, wanting him to seduce them."
The LibertyFest conference was also due to hear from speakers including Queensland chief entrepreneur Steve Baxter, Liberal Senator James Paterson, LNP Senator Amanda Stoker, federal LNP MP George Christensen, ousted One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts and unsuccessful LNP Brisbane City Council candidate Sean Jacobs.
Following an earlier speech by LibertyWorks general manager Justin Campbell, one woman in the audience thanked him for his presentation, which included jokes and a slide show, including an image of him with former prime minister Kevin Rudd when he was "red pilled" and voted Labor.
“Thank you for proving why, women like myself and many of the other women in this room want men around in power because you’re better at jokes than we are,” she said.
Mr Campbell said the left was not funny "any more".
"The left take themselves incredibly seriously," he said.
"They take offence to everything. We've become a victimhood culture.
"...There's another term, 'offence archaeologist', even if people can't find something to be offended about in anything you've actually said, they'll go back years to find it."
