Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...education about cancer prevention has been accomplished without this sort of celebrity brouhaha. One would never hear reporters deciding to "out" famous people with cancer, but editors of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Orlando Sentinel, among others, said they would have made Ashe's illness known--even without his consent--for the good of the public. This only reinforces the perception that AIDS is different from all other illnesses...
...council proposed to broaden the scope of punishable sexual crimes, however, by creating a new disciplinary category for "grey area" cases in which neither consent nor lack of consent is expressed...
After more than two hours of debate, the council approved a definition of rape as any act of sexual intercourse that occurs "despite the expressed unwillingness of the victim," requiring alleged victims to communicate their lack of consent physically or verbally...
...Task Force, in its February report to the Administrative Board, included in its definition of rape any acts of sexual intercourse "without the expressed consent" of the alleged victim. Under the Task Force's definition, the initiator of the sexual act is thus responsible for obtaining explicit consent...
This new category, called "sexual negligence," encompasses sexual acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...