The Washington Post
7.28.15 | Jannell Ross
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Then there's the question of the nation's growing conversation about sexual violence. Anti-rape activists have been vocal this year in arguing for a redefinition of consent from the "no means no" standard to affirmative consent. Practically speaking, that amounts to obtaining a yes, every step of the way, in every sexual encounter.
And in California and New York, that's already the law governing sexual encounters on college and university campuses.
That's not a political climate in which the claim that one cannot rape one's spouse is likely to be quickly forgotten.
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Late Monday night, the Daily Beast trawled the contents of a 1993 book, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump." In the book, Harry Hurt III writes about an alleged argument and subsequent sexual encounter between Trump and his now ex-wife, Ivana Trump.
Click on the link above if you want the graphic details. Suffice it to say that it was an allegation of violent sexual assault. It was something Hurt reports that Ivana Trump has called "rape," which Hurt attributes to her close confidantes. Ivana Trump later softened her comments, saying that she didn't want her characterization of the event to be "interpreted in a literal or criminal sense," but that she still felt "violated." On Tuesday, she called the Daily Beast story "without merit" and said she has a great relationship with her ex-husband.
