DISCUSSION

Consent and Deception

Volume 12, Number 2, November 2017, Pages 223–229
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v12i2.192

Abstract

Tom Dougherty has recently defended the claim that all deception that is consequential for sex is seriously wrong. This discussion piece argues that deception does not have to seriously undermine consent and that when sexual deception is seriously wrong, that may not only be to do with its relation to consent. In doing so, it defends distinguishing between the seriousness of deceptions, whether these are sexual or in other areas of life, and so defends what Dougherty calls the lenient view.
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