Open AccessStealthing as a form of rape – findings to date and future prospects for research
Author(s) -
Maciej Bocheński,
Mateusz Żebracki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
z zagadnień nauk sądowych/problems of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-5983
pISSN - 1230-7483
DOI - 10.4467/12307483pfs.20.003.14783
Subject(s) - phenomenon , perspective (graphical) , damages , criminology , condom , psychology , sexual intercourse , social psychology , political science , sociology , law , medicine , population , epistemology , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , computer science , philosophy , syphilis , family medicine , artificial intelligence
Stealthing or non-consensual condom removal (a situation in which one sexual partner, not necessarily a man, removes or damages a condom during intercourse and the other partner remains unaware of this fact) is a new phenomenon that has only recently been addressed by researchers. This article offers a summary of findings regarding the motives and methods of perpetrators’ of stealthing and attempts to analyse this phenomenon from the perspective of Polish criminal law. Finally, it discusses the prevalence of the offences of rape and its subtypes and outlines the key issues involved in the quantitative analysis of rape.