At issue was how Texas sexual assault law outlined lack of consent. It did not specifically include victims who have been voluntarily intoxicated, making their cases nearly impossible to prosecute.

SAN ANTONIO – For eight years, one horrific night in college shaped how Summer Willis defined herself.

The bipartisan measure, authored by Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, and carried in the Senate by Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, passed the House 135-2 and the Senate 31-0 before reaching the governor’s ...

Texas has recently overhauled its consent laws through the passage of House Bill 3073, now known as “the Summer Willis Act,” ...

How does pornography and other cultural influences affect perceptions of safety and consent around sexual choking? This ...

In her concise yet thought-provoking book, Consent: Fearful Asymmetry, Nilofer Kaul critically examines the concept of consent, unpacking its underlying assumptions of equality, rationality, and ...

Draft Data Protection Rules define parental consent and cross-border data sharing norms Parental identity and age will need to be validated and verified through voluntarily provided identity proof ...

To fix rape law, the legal definition of consent should be modified to remove provisions that take a rapist’s state of mind into account and add provisions that increase the quality of law’s respect ...

02/07/2024 February 7, 2024. The European Union has agreed to a new directive to protect women from violence, but it was unable to agree on a standard consent-based definition of rape.

Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent ...