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Article: When does a woman give valid consent to sexual relations?(Consent to Sexual Relations)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Consent to Sexual Relations, by Alan Wertheimer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 276 pages. Cloth, $70.00.
In law school, some students invariably position themselves in the front of the classroom, hoping to engage the professor in a series of hypothetical variants of the case law, perhaps finding much personal reward in the process, if not always finding rewarding answers to complex problems. One guesses that Alan Wertheimer, the author of Consent to Sexual Relations, was once such a student (albeit as a Ph.D., rather than a law student). In only 276 pages Wertheimer poses no fewer than 120 hypothetical situations, and each is named, ...