Abstract
This article builds upon a civil lawsuit (that settled in mediation with an award to the plaintiff) involving a long-term
sexual relationship between a schizophrenic man and a priest with AIDS. The fundamental question was whether it was a consensual
relationship between two adult men? Though hardly prototypical, this case nonetheless provides an illustration of the complications
underlying the conveyance of consent to sex. Multiple critical issues emerged (competency, communication, fraud, position
of authority, and blanket consent, etc.,), all largely anticipated by the concept of transformative consent to sexual relations. Names and identifying information have been disguised or eliminated; the underlying factual details
however remain intact.
sexual relationship between a schizophrenic man and a priest with AIDS. The fundamental question was whether it was a consensual
relationship between two adult men? Though hardly prototypical, this case nonetheless provides an illustration of the complications
underlying the conveyance of consent to sex. Multiple critical issues emerged (competency, communication, fraud, position
of authority, and blanket consent, etc.,), all largely anticipated by the concept of transformative consent to sexual relations. Names and identifying information have been disguised or eliminated; the underlying factual details
however remain intact.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Commentary
- Pages 357-366
- DOI 10.1007/s11195-012-9273-5
- Authors
- Paul R. Abramson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Terry Gross, Gross, Belsky & Alonso, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Annaka Abramson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Journal Sexuality and Disability
- Online ISSN 1573-6717
- Print ISSN 0146-1044
- Journal Volume Volume 30
- Journal Issue Volume 30, Number 3