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Man convicted of ‘stealthing’ after removing condom without consent - The Washington Post

Man convicted of ‘stealthing’ after removing condom without consent - The Washington Post

Man convicted of ‘stealthing’ after removing condom without consent - The Washington Post
Mar 15, 2023 59 secs

Comment on this storyA Dutch court has convicted a man of “stealthing,” or removing his condom without his partner’s consent and forcing unsafe sex, during a date in the summer of 2021.

In a statement, the Rotterdam court said he restricted the victim’s “personal freedom and abused the trust she had placed in him” and put her at risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

In a 2017 paper bycivil rights lawyer Alexandra Brodsky that pushed the term into mainstream discourse, victims called the act “rape-adjacent” and described it as a violation of bodily autonomy.

Kelly Cue Davis, a clinical psychologist and professor at Arizona State University who has studied stealthing, said the decision in the Dutch case reflects the complexity of the act.

Tuesday’s conviction drew largely on WhatsApp messages between Khaldoun and the victim, during which she asked whether he had a sexually transmitted illness and expressed concern about him removing the condom, to which he claimed he thought she “felt it.”

In a separate case, a 25-year-old man was acquitted because the Dutch court was “not convinced” the defendant made a “conscious choice” to remove the condom without his partner’s awareness.

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