Brown University, one of the leading schools that purports to educate our future leaders, recently declared that consensual sexual encounters between students are impermissible under university rules unless both parties consent.

Fair enough, but here’s the rub. A training video discussing sexual consent for incoming students defines the operative word as follows: “Consent is knowing my partner wants me just as much as I want them.”

Two of my former colleagues at Harvard Law School, the wife-husband team of professors Jeannie Suk and Jacob Gersen, are quoted in an excellent article in The Atlantic by Emily Yoffe as concluding that the impossible consent rules, such as the one at Brown, “plausibly cover… almost all sex students are having today.”

That is why so... Read More