DePaul University College of Law.
Cornell Law Rev. 2012 Sep;97(6):1461-504.
This Article explores the curious jurisprudence of sexual patterns and how it constructs female sexuality. In modern rape law, the "unchaste character inference" expressly prohibited by the rape shield endures. Though the boundaries that circumscribe appropriate sexual conduct have shifted over time, courts persist in making normative judgments about women's sexuality. Cloaked in the legitimizing rhetoric of sexual patterns, retrograde notions of deviancy are substituting for rational deliberation on the question of consent. As rape shield law enters its fourth decade, it continues to defy reason, both in application and in theory. The proposed evidentiary approach promises to improve judicial decision making in rape cases, while reorienting the law toward the female sexual subject and the contingency of her consent.
本文探讨了性行为模式的奇特法学原理，以及它如何构建女性的性行为。在现代强奸法中，尽管强奸盾牌明确禁止了“不贞性格推断”，但它仍然存在。尽管规范适当性行为的界限随着时间的推移而发生了变化，但法院仍然对女性的性行为进行规范性判断。在性行为模式的合法化修辞的掩盖下，关于偏差的倒退观念正在取代对同意问题的理性思考。随着强奸盾牌法进入第四个十年，它在应用和理论上都继续违背常理。拟议的证据方法有望改善强奸案件的司法决策，同时使法律转向女性性主体和她同意的偶然性。
