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Affirmative Consent

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Reason Roundup

Cuomo Asks America To Hold Off on Believing Women This Time

Plus: QAnon comes to CPAC, Virginia votes to legalize marijuana, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.1.2021 9:29 AM

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Affirmative Consent

In Win for Due Process, American Bar Association Voted Against Affirmative Consent

ABA's House of Delegates voted 256-165 to indefinitely table the motion.

Robby Soave | 8.13.2019 9:15 AM

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Sex

Consenting To Be Paid for Sex Is Still Consenting!

Statists, both in and out of government, like to play Kafkaesque games with the idea of consent.

Maggie McNeill | 6.4.2019 6:00 AM

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Sex

Aziz Ansari and the Limits of 'He Should Know Better'

Sloppy seduction or sexual assault? If those are your terms, you're already missing the point.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.16.2018 3:17 PM

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Vanessa Grigoriadis on the 'Blurred Lines' of Consensual Sex and Assault on Campus

Is rape culture out of control, or have we entered a new era of "sexual McCarthyism?"

Nick Gillespie and Justin Monticello | 10.9.2017 5:00 PM

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Sex Trafficking

Sexual Consent in Seattle Must Involve Element of 'Leisure,' Claims Top Cop

What Korean sex workers "were doing could not be called consensual because they were being paid," Val Richey tells The Seattle Times.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.31.2017 12:42 PM

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Due Process

Student Agreed to Orgy, But Later Called It Sexual Assault, Lawsuit Claims

Judge says that University of California, Santa Barbara, may have denied accused male student due process

Samantha Harris | 6.15.2017 1:30 PM

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Donald Trump

Fifty Shades of Comey

It's time we applied affirmative consent to government meddling.

Sarah Siskind and Andrew Heaton | 6.15.2017 10:50 AM

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Title IX

Texas Lawmaker Proposes Campus Rape Law So Crazy Even Title IX Defenders Are Skeptical

Baylor's problems are serious, but this isn't a great solution.

Robby Soave | 2.22.2017 11:35 AM

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Sex

Donald Trump Accused of Kissing Porn Star Jessica Drake Without Her Consent, Offering to Pay Her $10,000 for Sex

Drake did not agree to Trump's advances said lawyer Gloria Allred on Saturday.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.22.2016 6:47 PM

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Election 2016

Electoral Politics Is a Horrible Context In Which to Talk About Sexual Consent

People excited to see sexual-consent issues dominating cable news probably won't like where this is going.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.15.2016 6:38 PM

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Culture

Feminist Camille Paglia on Yes Means Yes: 'Drearily Puritanical, Hopelessly Authoritarian'

Not impressed with campus feminism.

Robby Soave | 12.14.2015 2:55 PM

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Culture

Culture Police Target Bloomingdale's Holiday Catalog

Seasonal outrage is not just for Christians. It has a secular face as well.

Tracy Quan | 11.18.2015 2:00 PM

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Sex Crimes

Woman Arrested for Sexual Abuse After Twerking on Stranger in D.C. Store

As a proponent of gender-blind law, I understand why D.C. police must take the incident seriously. And yet...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.11.2015 1:10 PM

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Civil Liberties

Why We Should Pity the Anti-Rape Activist Who Convinced Herself She's a Rapist.

Affirmative consent will never work as policy

Robby Soave | 10.14.2015 5:22 PM

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Civil Liberties

Teach Students About Consent, Don't Expel Them for Failing to Prove They Had It

'Yes Means Yes' works as instructional lesson, fails as policy

Robby Soave | 9.30.2015 4:42 PM

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Policy

New York Creates Special Victim's Unit for Campus Sexual Assault

A step in the right direction?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.26.2015 3:47 PM

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Civil Liberties

Judge Stops USC from Expelling Football Player Who Failed to Prove He Wasn't a Rapist

Another important win for due process in college sex disputes.

Robby Soave | 8.13.2015 12:10 PM

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Culture

Student Wrongfully Expelled for Rape Triumphs in Court: Due Process Beats 'Yes Means Yes'

The University of Tennessee shifted the burden of proof and violated the rights of accused student Corey Mock.

Robby Soave | 8.12.2015 10:52 PM

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Policy

What Have We Learned from the UVA Rape Story? Bad Campus Policies Are Here to Stay

We will get fooled again.

Robby Soave | 7.9.2015 9:05 AM

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Culture

'Yes Means Yes' Supporters Want Students Signing Sex Contracts

Naive U. of Minnesota students don't realize sex is about to get more confusing.

Robby Soave | 7.6.2015 4:20 PM

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Policy

The Future of Sex Is Terrifying

Proposed changes to U.S. sex-crime laws seek to set new sexual norms by criminalizing ordinary behavior.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.30.2015 3:30 PM

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Culture

U. Michigan Sex Assault Survey: Some Nonconsensual Touching, Very Little Forcible Rape

UM does not seem like a uniquely dangerous place for women.

Robby Soave | 6.24.2015 6:10 PM

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Civil Liberties

Law Professor Will Sue SUNY Over 'Affirmative Consent' Because It Doesn't Require Believing All Rape Victims

"Yes means yes" policies grant too much due process to the accused, says Wendy Murphy.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.26.2015 1:05 PM

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Culture

Flawed Narratives, Perfect Victims, and the Columbia Rape Allegations

Can reviving the old myth that women never lie serve justice in any way?

Cathy Young | 2.9.2015 9:01 AM

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Policy

How Affirmative Consent Threatens Liberty

The trouble with mandating "yes means yes" on college campuses.

Robert Carle | 2.3.2015 8:30 AM

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Civil Liberties

Autistic Student Who Kissed Wrong Person Expelled for Sexual Assault

Robby Soave | 1.14.2015 1:33 PM

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Policy

Lessons of Rolling Stone's UVA Catastrophe: We Can't Prevent Rape If We're Deluded About It

Robby Soave | 12.9.2014 9:10 AM

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Civil Liberties

The UVA Rapists Should Not Have Been Expelled

Treating rape as akin to plagiarism trivializes violence against women.

Robby Soave | 11.25.2014 4:30 PM

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Civil Liberties

Liberal Feminists, Stop Smearing Critics As Rape Apologists

Robby Soave | 11.17.2014 2:42 PM

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Civil Liberties

'Our Strategy for Dealing With Rape on College Campuses Has Failed Abysmally.'

Robby Soave | 11.16.2014 7:50 PM

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Culture

Porn Star James Deen Is a Raging Libertarian, Hates Affirmative Consent

On Rand Paul: 'I don't vote for absurd people.'

Robby Soave | 11.12.2014 2:58 PM

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Policy

A Republican Congress Should Make Obama Lower the Drinking Age

Robby Soave | 11.10.2014 3:22 PM

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Shikha Dalmia Talks Campus Sex and Affirmative Consent on PBS

Reason Staff | 11.7.2014 2:35 PM

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Civil Liberties

Feds Punish Princeton For Liking Due Process Too Much

Robby Soave | 11.7.2014 12:30 PM

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Culture

Half of MIT Students Think It's Possible to "Accidently" Rape Someone (Thanks, Affirmative Consent!)

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.28.2014 1:15 PM

Politics

The Left's Creeping Totalitarianism on Affirmative Consent

Depriving men of their due process rights won't help women

Shikha Dalmia | 10.21.2014 9:15 AM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on the Illiberal Liberals on Campus

Reason Staff | 10.21.2014 9:15 AM

Politics

Ezra Klein Meets Mao Zedong

Shikha Dalmia | 10.16.2014 3:58 PM

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