Posted on 07/01/2018 2:21:43 PM PDT by BBell
Stockholm (AFP) - A tough new law that will recognise sex without explicit consent as rape comes into effect in Sweden on Sunday, after the country was rocked by the #MeToo movement denouncing sexual harassment and assault.
The law stipulates that a person has committed rape if they have been part of a sexual act in which the other person has not participated "freely".
Rape had previously been defined as a sexual act carried out with the use of violence or threat.
Now for someone to face rape charges, "it is no longer necessary that violence or threats were applied, or that the aggressor took advantage of the victim's particularly vulnerable situation," according to the government.
Courts will need to pay particular attention to whether consent was expressed with words, gestures or in another manner, and judges will have to rule on the issue, according to the law passed in May.
Judge Anna Hannell, who helped create the law, said there was "absolutely no requirement to formally say 'yes', to hit a button in an app or anything else of the same type"
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“Opponents say it will force judges to make arbitrary decisions on whether or not there was consent.”
Just make the assumption that the ‘new arrival’ was doing it without consent, and let him prove otherwise.
That could be a cadence.
Lutherans.
Selective enforcement.
Now, if they’d just prosecute and PUNISH the islamic horde rapists...
Do you need a notarized contract in triplicate to do the Deed?
I hear that there is an App for that now....
“She loved to get naked, sauna and roll around in the snow and demand to have her bottom spanked with birch twigs...”
Why is she not Mrs Mylife?
L
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