When consent to sex is induced with a lie how is that consent real? Isn't this actually non-consensual sex, ie rape? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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And, there's a difficulty: how does this differ from "I love you yes I want to marry you" sort of lies? That's a can of worms best unopened, perhaps?
Wtf is wrong with you?
Definitely it is
Would the women have consented had they know his identity?
No
So it is rape
This has come up in multiple areas of consent in law, including sex, marriage, consumer credit agreements, shrink wrap licence agreements, double glazing sales etc.
Should politicians who lie to coax a country into war be prosecuted? Many said yes after Iraq. How about lying to get elected? Hmmmm.
Compounded by the political motivation behind it
Police never seem to sleep with Tories to spy on them do they?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40446396
More significantly, lying about HIV status or about a vasectomy have been deemed **not** to be rape in case law.
In short, the law is a tangled mess in this area. And discriminatory.
There have been no convictions but the potential for an abuse of the law is there
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220183241283223
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice-points/sex-lies-and-law-reform-when-should-we-criminalise-sex-by-deception-/5114821.article
But, lets say you’re in a bar and you see this person you're really attracted to, you chat a bit and then you kiss them, but you find out they’re trans, you can call the police on them and have them arrested and charged…
I agree that what they did is wrong but you seem to have an awfully big can of worms there.
Sorry if that ruins Friday night Tim.
Where would you draw the line anyway?