Getty Images[/caption] For two months now, as accusations of sexual misconduct have piled up against Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced mogul has responded over and over again: "Any allegations of ...

Paging anti–campus rape crusaders: It isn’t just college-age Americans who are confused about what it means to consent to sex. It seems pervasive “no means no” messaging might not help boost ...

"This is not about rehashing the past. This is about creating social progress for the future," onetime aspiring actress Dawn Dunning told the press conference in support of New York penal law reforms.

France's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill to define rape as any non-consensual sexual act, paving the way for its final adoption by the Senate next week. The move comes after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill establishing a definition for consent, and creating a penalty for rape under that definition, will move to the House of ...

Something as important as consent should have one, clear definition — and it does. But there's still major debate on what really counts as consent. As a new survey of 1,000 people shows, there's still ...

Stunned by what she learned about the law during deliberations in the sex assault case, Cheryl Carmel is lobbying for consent to have a clear definition: a positive, unequivocal “yes.” By Graham ...

The American Bar Association wanted to change the definition of consent in criminal sexual assault cases that closely mirrors the definition used by college and universities -- but criticism from due ...

We all think we know what pornography is, whether we oppose it, use it, or tolerate it. But are we all conjuring up the same images? The term has been used to describe, for example: a music video clip ...

A bill that would have added a legal definition of consent to South Dakota's rape statute died in a Senate committee Tuesday afternoon. House Bill 1150 would have added a definition for "consent," ...