Denmark: Sex Without 'Explicit Consent' is Now Rape!

Denmark: Sex Without 'Explicit Consent' is Now Rape!
Published December 18th, 2020 - 09:10 GMT
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Highlights
“We must have changed society’s understanding of what rape is, and a new consent-based rape provision is a milestone in that effort.”
Denmark has strengthened its rape laws by criminalising sex without explicit consent.
The new law passed by parliament widened the circumstances that could constitute rape - under the old legislation, prosecutors had to show the rapist had used violence or attacked someone who was unable to resist.
"Now it will be clear, that if both parties do no consent to sex, then it's rape," justice minister Nick Haekkerup said in a statement.

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