Stealthing
- September 14, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Stealthing
Subject – IR
Context – New California Bill trying to add Stealthing in sexual battery
Concept –
- California State Legislature has passed a bill that makes stealthing — the act of removing a condom during intercourse without consent — a crime.
- If passed, California would be the first state to criminalise the act of stealthing.
- Stealthing is an act of removing a condom during intercourse without a partner’s knowledge or consent. It is considered a form of condom use resistance.
- Stealthing has been widely criticised for the possibility of contracting sexually transmissible diseases and pregnancy that can occur due to this non-consensual practice of condom removal.