Feminists who hold that some sex work is performed voluntarily, and that the women who perform it are not victims, generally support removing most restrictions where sex commerce involves consenting adults (Shrage 1996; Nussbaum 1999; Ditmore 2005; Leigh 2004).
Legalized prostitution, however, involves consenting adults, not the creation of a third, autonomous human being who is contracted for and is not legal within most of the U.S. Furthermore, surrogacy does not provide a sustainable income for the indigent and most American surrogates claim their motive is not financial.
He was nowhere near the corridors of the Church's senior officials, and his case was markedly different from that of this secretary, but his story constantly reminds me that we shouldn't be so quick to judge the sex lives of others provided it involves consenting adults no matter the person's profession.
Contracts involve consent and few of us consent — implicitly or otherwise — to most of what our government does.
Miscegenation involves sex (which, as I point out at the end of my piece, is the original meaning of "rock and roll") but it doesn't always involve consent.
These cases involving consent inevitably rest on who the jury believes most the alleged victim or the defendant.
Her experience with troubled youths, including teenagers who were pregnant or had a sexually transmitted disease, led her to concentrate on issues involving consent and confidentiality.
People interested in submitting their story fill out a questionnaire that asks about the sexual experience, activities involved, consent, contraceptive precautions, the best and worst thing about the hookup, and whether it was a positive or negative experience overall.
Moreover, consent may involve consent to be randomised, to receive an intervention, or simply to provide data.
All brain tissue is procured, stored, and distributed according to applicable regulations and guidelines involving consent, protection of human subjects and donor anonymity.
