Government on your dick: CA to Slip Stealthing Ban into Law

California is poised to become the first state in the country to make stealthing – removing a condom without consent – a civil offense.

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Earlier this month, the California legislature unanimously passed Assembly Bill 453, amending the civil code to include nonconsensual condom removal in the definition of sexual battery. Effectively banning “stealthing,” the bill is expected to be signed into law by October 10th, assuming Gov. Gavin Newsom consents.

If so, California will be the first state in the country to successfully outlaw stealthing. Several other countries have already done so, including Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Similar bills have been introduced in New York and Wisconsin and failed, while other states haven’t even tried, a shameful state of affairs in a country that prides itself on being one of the best, safest places in the world for women to live (especially if we don’t consider Texas).

While the term “stealthing” first came into use in the gay community as a way to describe action taken by HIV-positive men to purposefully, secretly infect others, it also fills a gap for women who wanted to talk about the “rape-adjacent” feeling of danger and violation thrust upon them by men who they thought were trustworthy enough to sleep with, but for which they lacked useful terminology. In 2017, Alexandra Brodsky, a graduate of Yale Law school, published a paper in the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law which aimed to clarify the act as a form of nonconsensual sexual violence for judges and juries who might otherwise be unsympathetic to victims who had already consented to some form of sex, but not this. Not this at all.

Studies conducted in 2019 in the United States and Australia found that 12-32% of women and 10-19% of men polled had been “stealthed” at some point, while 10% of men admitted doing it to someone else. Even as victims expressed fear of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, feelings of trauma and violation, and difficulty trusting potential future partners, internet fora were springing up where men like “Brendan” traded tips on how to most effectively remove condoms in order to get the best physical sensations with minimal risk of discovery. Sure, it’s risky, agreed pro-stealther “Brendan” in an interview with the youth arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but it’s also risky to cross the street.

.https://www.legalreader.com/ca-to-slip-stealthing-ban-into-law-nsfw/
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Government on your dick: CA to Slip Stealthing Ban into Law

California is poised to become the first state in the country to make stealthing – removing a condom without consent – a civil offense.

Government on your dick: CA to Slip Stealthing Ban into Law

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