14 January 2026
New Law on Sexual Consent
I do not see why this law could offer greater protection to women who have been raped: the difficulty of proving that explicit consent was not given is even greater than that of proving violence (except in cases where the rape did not occur in public).
The law would be more of an ideological statement of principle and would have no practical effect on the legal level.
There is talk of consent expressed verbally, but I would point out that we also communicate through attitude, especially in the sexual sphere: if I take off a girl’s underwear and she says nothing, this fact is interpreted as consent.
Everyone makes jokes about the idea that a woman must explicitly declare her consent: hence talk of written declarations, made before a notary, etc., etc.—things that are completely absurd (you only see this in The Big Bang Theory).