Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed into law Thursday a bill prohibiting men from removing a condom without consent during sexual intercourse.
Under the new law, introduced by Democratic Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, partners will be required to obtain verbal permission before taking off a condom during sex. California is the first state to outlaw the practice, which Garcia calls “stealthing.”
“Glad that CA is leading for the nation on stealthing. 1 state down, 49 to go,” Garcia tweeted late Thursday.
Garcia first campaigned to outlaw the practice in 2017 after a Yale University study describing “nonconsensual condom removal” as “rape-adjacent” showed that the act is increasingly common, according to the Associated Press.
“This law is the first of its kind in the nation, but I urge other states to follow in California’s direction and make it clear that stealthing is not just immoral but illegal,” Garcia told the AP.
Under the new law, “a person commits a sexual battery” by causing “contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another from which the person removed a condom without verbal consent.” More, the law “makes a person who commits a sexual battery … liable for damages and equitable relief.”
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