Word: consent
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...cannot be assumed that silence is consent," the statement reads...
...definitions suggested by the Task Force and the council are somewhat different in focus. The Task Force's report recommends that rape be defined as sex which "occurs without the expressed consent of the person...
Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, who drafted the definition, said he was uncomfortable with the emphasis placed on expressed consent in the Task Force's recommendation...
...standard definition of rape is of non-consentual penetration," Miller said.Thus rape is usually shown by "a lack of consentrather than a failure to show expressed consent...
Theater is particularly effective in communicating the ambiguities involved in the question of sexual consent versus sexual acquiescence. Rasminsky juxtaposes two versions of the scene in A Streetcar Named Desire in which Stanley carries Blanche off to bed, the first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...