ADVERTISEMENT“Half the states don’t even have a definition of consent,” says Erin Murphy, a professor at New York University School of Law who’s involved in a project to rewrite a model penal code on sex assault. Actress Paz de la Huerta, who has accused Weinstein of rape, said in a TV interview: “I just froze in fear. The very word “consent,” actress and writer Brit Marling wrote in the Atlantic, “cannot fully capture the complexity of the encounter. “I told her that just because you consent once, it’s not a blanket consent. It took about five years to achieve the current consent definition, which recognizes that the essence of consent is willingness – but that how willingness is expressed depends on context.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 16, 2017 14:03 UTC