“Stealthing”, the dangerous sexual practice that became a crime in California

In the world there are several sexual practices that are conceived as abusive and although it seems that every time the margin of what is correct becomes more diffuse, el key concept to understand any breakdown of trust in the affective-sexual plane is consent. A notion that, for example, is completely ignored in the rise of the phenomenon of “stealthing” in the United States and the world, which in short refers to the removal of the condom without any permission from your partner.

On this practice, an extremely strong debate has been generated in recent years, due to the appearance of more and more cases, testimonies of victims and investigations, which in turn have resulted in the inclusion of “stealthing” as a sexual offense in different laws of the world. The most current reference is perhaps the State of California, in the US, which recently became the first place in that country to take action on the matter.

The initiative was approved by the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and Thanks to this from now on, any aggressor who removes the condom without the consent of his partner during the sexual act would incur a civil (not criminal) crime, endorsing the court to rule a “equitable compensation, which includes, among others, a court order, costs and any other compensation it deems appropriate ”.

Bill 453, how this outpost was known in favor of the protection of sexual indemnity for people, add a colon to the section 1708.5. of the California Civil Code, which ensure that a person commits sexual assault when:

“Causes contact between a sexual organ, from which a condom has been removed, and the intimate part of another person who did not give verbal consent for the condom to be removed”, As well as the second point stipulates that intimate contact with a person cannot be forced when the condom has been removed without their consent. Since, although to a lesser extent, men also suffer from this scourge.

What is the ‘stealthing’?

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