Word: consents
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Numerous committee meetings and seemingly endless rounds of campus controversy later, the Date Rape Task Force garnered a less than lukewarm response to its proposed definition for date rape this week. And rejection of the definition, which states that sex with a "lack of consent" constitutes rape, means that the Task Force's efforts may simply result in maintaining the status...
...Task Force's definition of rape is "any actof sexual intercourse that occurs without theexpressed consent of the person, or is accompaniedby physical force or threat of bodily injury...
...Rape may also include intercourse when theperson is incapable of expressing or withholdingreasoned consent, or is prevented from resentingbecause of the intake of alcohol or drugs," thereport states...
According to Jarvenpaa, the task forcedefinition would focus on the actions of theperpetrator by requiring him or her to activelyseek consent of the victim...
Agreeing that the definition of rape needs to be consistent with Massachusetts law, it calls the Task Force's definition "overly broad." "Basing rape on an expression of consent creates too many situations where someone could be unfairly called a rapist...