A man has been found guilty of rape after taking off a condom during sex without his partner knowing.
via The Independent:
The landmark decision by the Criminal Court in Lausanne, Switzerland, determined that having sex without a condom constituted rape if the use of one was expected.
The 47-year-old was given a 12-month suspended sentence on Monday, according to news agency RTS.
The unnamed man, from France, met a Swiss woman on dating app Tinder.
On their second date in June 2015 they started having sex with a condom, but the woman only realised it had been removed after it was over.
The court judged that the woman would have refused to have sex if she had known the condom would be removed.
The victim’s lawyer has described the conviction as “a first for Switzerland”.
Dr. Sinead Ring of the University of Kent made a good point. “If it’s proved the woman consented to sex with a condom and he changed the circumstances under which she’d consented, it’s quite possible he’d be convicted of rape,” Dr. Ring told Broadly‘s Sirin Kale.
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