A New Paradigm : Redefining Consent and Deception in Rape.
A New Paradigm: Redefining Consent and Deception in Rape The notion and the modus operandi of the rape and its laws have gone through various changes as the contemporary situation warrants. The traditional definition of rape implies the use of force and the absence of consent from the victim side. The classical definition of the rape requires the forceful or coercive means or the method of snatching away the autonomy of the women. Women’s sexuality and reproductive capacities have for by millennia been understood as men’s property. The use of force and the often-related expectation that a victim/survivor ‘ fight back ’ or outwardly resist the sexual activity for it to be classified as rape, is increasingly being abandoned as a legal criterion following years of research into victim/survivor experiences and survival responses. This shift recognizes that exhibiting physical or verbal resistance may be unsafe or impossible in the moment [1] , and thus that the absence of re...