But whether the encounter was forced or consensual, or something else entirely, remains a mystery.
At the police station, he told me that he had never had sex, forced or consensual, with Fulamatu or tried to rape the other girls.
Finally we cut to the crucial beachside encounter between the two main parties and are left to deduce whether the ensuing sex was forced or consensual.
Although there have been leaks that DNA evidence ties him to a sex act, it would not indicate whether that act was forced or consensual — putting greater weight on the credibility of the woman and of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down last week as head of the International Monetary Fund.
Determining whether an allegation involving underage sex was forced or consensual would depend greatly on individual interpretation of the circumstances.
Zhang claims that never happened, and that she never had any form of sexual relationship with Shi, whether it was forced or consensual.
Then, in 2004, two football players at Montclair High were accused of raping a schoolmate, but the Essex County prosecutor's office dropped the charges because it concluded the sex was not forced or violent but consensual.
Using the SES-SFV, forced sexual contact will have occurred when a participant answers one of three questions indicating she had experienced threatened, forced, or drug facilitated non-consensual sexual touch not including intercourse (e.g., "fondled, kissed, or rubbed up against the private areas of my body (lips, breast/chest, crotch or butt) or removed some of my clothes").
Although the majority of girls (70.8%) and boys (82%) reported that their last sex was consensual, several girls (29.1%) and boys (18%) said that they were persuaded, tricked, forced, or raped the last time they had sex.
For the purposes of this study, sexual violence was defined as any physically or verbally forced sexual act, including molestation, forced undressing, forced or unwelcome touching of a sexual nature, forced intercourse, forced insertion of an object into any body cavity or any other non-consensual sexual act, whether completed or not.
While the sexual scripts of adolescent women, college-attending women, and women who had experienced coercive or non-consensual sex are well documented [ 24- 36], the focus of most scripting research on heterosexual women has been related specifically to contraception negotiation, clinic attendance, condom use, exchange sex, and forced or unwanted sex [ 16, 37- 40].
