LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

According to Penn’s policy on sexual and relationship violence and stalking, consent can be given nonverbally. With the addition of new administrative positions and processes to combat sexual ...

Holly Rider-Milkovich, director of the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, announced Sunday that SAPAC updated its website to reflect changes to language used to define ...

A bill establishing a definition for consent, and creating a penalty for rape under that definition, will move to the House of Representatives after a judiciary hearing passed it unanimously Wednesday ...

Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, stands outside of the Capitol on Friday. Tarr sponsored legislation to update a 40-year-old definition of consent in state law, which the Legislature passed on the last ...

ALBANY—Governor Andrew Cuomo’s definition of “affirmative consent” has changed significantly since he first proposed that colleges must use the “yes means yes” standard for adjudicating sexual assault ...

The idea of “affirmative consent’’ has been outlined in California’s recently enacted “Yes Means Yes’’ bill as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.’’ But ...

Ms. Anderson is the president of Brooklyn College, a former dean of City University of New York’s School of Law and a scholar on sexual assault. Ms. Tuerkheimer is a professor of law at Northwestern ...

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 ...