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Proposed Oklahoma Law Would Turn Research Assistants Into Rapists

Professor Volokh highlights a bill currently pending before the Oklahoma Legislature:

Section 1111. A. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or female who is not the spouse of the perpetrator . . under any of the following circumstances: . . .

9. Where the victim is an undergraduate student under twenty-one (21) years of age attending any college or university in this state or the victim is attending any public or private secondary school in this state, regardless of the person's age, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is an employee of the same college, university or school system unless the two persons were legally married prior to enrollment or employment in such college, university or school. . . . .

This is obviously aimed at outlawing student-teacher relationships, but declaring them to be rape doesn't really seem like the right kind of reaction...

(Via, once again, ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society.)

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