ep. 140: “Stealthing”
Until recently, nonconsensual condom removal, aka stealthing, has gone unnamed and unpunished. In 2017, when then-law student Alexandra Brodsky published a legal paper about stealthing, it went viral and yielded immediate, real-world ripple effects. Brodsky tells us that astonishing story, why stealthing struck a chord and how changing laws can help change consent culture.
Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights attorney and the author of the new book Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash.
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Read her paper: ‘Rape-Adjacent’: Imagining Legal Responses to Nonconsensual Condom Removal
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