Over time, how has the law of rape changed with regard to force and consent?
What will be an ideal response?
Current rape law has shifted the emphasis from the resistance of victims to lack of consent. The traditional emphasis on physical violence (or threats thereof) to satisfy the element of force in the actus reus of rape is shifting in modern rape law to the sufficiency of non-consent to unwanted sexual activity. The MPC (ALI 1985 2:279–81) rape provision eliminated consent as an element in rape because of its "disproportionate emphasis upon objective manifestations by the woman.". The amount of resistance required to prove lack of consent has changed over time. From the 1800s until the 1950s, the utmost resistance standard prevailed. In the 1950s, most courts softened the utmost resistance definition to the reasonable resistance rule, the rule followed in almost all states today.
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