File Photo: A woman stops to photograph a mural showing pictures of underwear with the slogan 'Not Asking For It' in a street in Dublin on November 17, 2018 as a protest after a defence lawyer showed a 17-year-old girl's thong or G-string in court as alleged proof of her consent in a rape case.
"Now it will be clear, that if both parties do no consent to sex, then it's rape," justice minister Nick Haekkerup said in a statement.“This is one of the most important battles for gender equality in Denmark that has taken place for a very long time,” Justice Minister Nick Haekkerup said after the agreement was announced.
“We must have changed society’s understanding of what rape is, and a new consent-based rape provision is a milestone in that effort.”A similar law introduced in neighbouring Sweden in 2018 resulted in a 75 percent rise in rape convictions.Around 11,400 women a year are raped or subjected to attempted rape in Denmark, according to the ministry's figures.
The University of Southern Denmark’s research estimates that this figure may have been as high as 24,000 in 2017. However, in 2019 just 1,017 rapes were reported to the police and only 79 resulted in convictions, according to
The Greens, the Left and the Liberals have already made this demand for consensual sex between an adult and a child. Therefore this requirement is very strange, because a penal law and a civil law can be interpreted very ambiguously.
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