What Is 'No': Can Sexual Consent Be Ambiguous?
The Delhi High Court verdict acquitting Mahmood Farooqui, who had been jailed for raping an American scholar, has triggered a debate on sexual consent. The judgement has dealt extensively with the issue of consent in a sexual relationship and has reached the conclusion that 'a feeble no may mean a yes'. So how exactly can a woman express 'no'? Sometimes women may be threatened, attacked or physically restrained and therefore, unable to say no. Does that not make it rape? We debate, on Agenda.
