My number one rule is that I never go alone to a woman's hotel room or home unless I'm prepared to have sex with her OR have it believed that I had sex with her. The part before the "or" was for my single days. The part after the "or" has gotten more important since getting married and being successful in my career.

If you're never alone in private with a woman it will be orders of magnitude more difficult to claim you did something, particularly with forensics today.

As you so rightly point out: having the means to prove one's innocence is not a privilege all share. In any case, erring on the side of caution has kept me from ever being close to a situation like Terrance Shannon (or Mike Tyson).