Affirmative Consent Is Back
And it's still a bad legal standard.
Plus: QAnon comes to CPAC, Virginia votes to legalize marijuana, and more...
ABA's House of Delegates voted 256-165 to indefinitely table the motion.
Statists, both in and out of government, like to play Kafkaesque games with the idea of consent.
Sloppy seduction or sexual assault? If those are your terms, you're already missing the point.
Is rape culture out of control, or have we entered a new era of "sexual McCarthyism?"
What Korean sex workers "were doing could not be called consensual because they were being paid," Val Richey tells The Seattle Times.
Judge says that University of California, Santa Barbara, may have denied accused male student due process
Baylor's problems are serious, but this isn't a great solution.
Drake did not agree to Trump's advances said lawyer Gloria Allred on Saturday.
People excited to see sexual-consent issues dominating cable news probably won't like where this is going.
Not impressed with campus feminism.
Seasonal outrage is not just for Christians. It has a secular face as well.
As a proponent of gender-blind law, I understand why D.C. police must take the incident seriously. And yet...
Affirmative consent will never work as policy
'Yes Means Yes' works as instructional lesson, fails as policy
A step in the right direction?
Another important win for due process in college sex disputes.
The University of Tennessee shifted the burden of proof and violated the rights of accused student Corey Mock.
We will get fooled again.
Naive U. of Minnesota students don't realize sex is about to get more confusing.
Proposed changes to U.S. sex-crime laws seek to set new sexual norms by criminalizing ordinary behavior.
UM does not seem like a uniquely dangerous place for women.
"Yes means yes" policies grant too much due process to the accused, says Wendy Murphy.
Can reviving the old myth that women never lie serve justice in any way?
The trouble with mandating "yes means yes" on college campuses.
Treating rape as akin to plagiarism trivializes violence against women.
On Rand Paul: 'I don't vote for absurd people.'
Depriving men of their due process rights won't help women
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