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The Netherlands punishes ‘stealthing’: What is this sex crime and which countries have made it illegal?
FirstpostA post-Me Too world put consent in the spotlight. Representational picture/Reuters A 2017 paper “‘Rape-Adjacent’: Imagining Legal Responses to Nonconsensual Condom Removal” written by Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights litigator and a legal fellow for the National Women’s Law Center in the United States, spoke about how “stealthing” is a “grave violation of dignity and autonomy”. In the first conviction for “stealthing” in The Netherlands, a court handed a 28-year-old man a suspended jail sentence for secretly removing a condom during sex. “In this way, he exposed her to contracting sexually transmitted diseases and an unwanted pregnancy.” The Syrian-born suspect sent the victim texts afterwards including one that said, “You will be fine.” A man in The Netherlands was convicted for ‘stealthing’ but not for rape. A 2018 study by Monash University and the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre surveyed 2,000 people and found one in three women, and almost one in five men who have sex with men had experienced “stealthing”.
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