(July 20, 2021 at 7:51 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(July 20, 2021 at 7:26 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: In the end, I say, the first two items certainly count as unwelcome sexual contact... but lying about marital status... not so much.
Right; I think that is the default intuition that many people have, and which feminist legal scholars have attempted to argue against. Perhaps a less trivial example than marital status would be trans issues—should a trans person be required to disclose that information before having sex? In both cases, nothing about the actual sexual contact is changed by that information, only the meta-knowledge about their identity (e.g. married, not married, trans, not trans). And yet, knowing that the person you are sleeping with is trans, would more often than not change the person's consent.
Look through the link below. It's very long (and I myself have not read all of it), but you'll find the studies about marital status and consent there.
Article: Commonsense Consent
That's interesting. I feel like I should give it a read to see if it convinces me that my "folk intuitions" are inadequate.
