What's the difference between saying "No means no" and saying "Yes means yes"? That's not a trick question: It's at the heart of the discussion being held on college campuses and in state legislatures ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of the article provided incorrect information about the number of agencies that have been released from DOJ agreements and the status of the consent ...

We can choose when–if at all–we are willing to kiss, hold hands, get naked, or have sex. When engaging in sexual activity, we also get to choose what types of touch or penetration we are willing to ...

After she began to wonder if her own sexual assault case would ever be solved, Julie Ford decided to look into how the New Orleans Police Department handled other crimes of sexual violence. In 2018, ...

"Half the states don't even have a definition of consent," says Erin Murphy, a professor at New York University School of Law who's involved in a project to rewrite a model penal code on sex assault. ...

As a young woman and high school student educator, I stood before high school students in Washtenaw County during a sex education presentation, to ask a seemingly simple question: “What does consent ...