On 17th December 2020 Denmark’s parliament voted to change the legal definition of rape, from a forced-based definition to defining all sex without consent as an act of rape. Denmark now joins nine other European countries that have updated the legal definition of rape to be based around consent, in order to help fight sexual crime and violence. However many view defining rape in this way as problematic, with the issue of sexual consent being a hugely nuanced area that is not easily well-defined or agreed upon, either ethically, legally, or socially. Is sex without consent rape ?

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