Swedish residents will have to get explicit consent from their sexual partners before contact or it will be considered rape, according to a new law adopted Wednesday. “It is no longer necessary for ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

Imagine you go under anesthesia for a procedure and a pelvic or prostate exam is performed on you without your knowledge. A Yale University bioethicist says it happens all over the country, including ...

You might soon be able to request explicit sexual consent through an app called LegalFling.The website says, "The application generates a live contract, which is a legally binding agreement."Although, ...

Medical distrust is hard to heal. It may linger for generations, being passed down along with china sets and pocket watches. Its presence complicates good medical care since wary patients are less ...

Take if from an experienced kinkster: even in our communities, we talk about consent all the time. There are often debates about what constitutes explicit consent, when implicit consent is enough and ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Swedish government is pressing ahead with a new rape law that would ...