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Denmark: Sex Without Explicit Consent is Now Rape! Published December 18th, 2020 - 09:10 GMT
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“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.
United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden among those to apply law in this way
Similar change in Sweden in 2018 resulted in 75% increase in rape convictions
Denmark has redefined rape as sex without consent instead of requiring victims to prove their attacker used violence.
Most countries in the European Union lack this significant consent definition which is also used in the United Kingdom.
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Justice minister Nick Haekkerup said: Now it will be clear, that if both parties do not consent to sex, then it s rape.
A similar law introduced in neighbouring Sweden in 2018 resulted in a 75 percent increase in rape convictions.