The bill defines it as “an act of sexual penetration to which a person has given consent because the actor has misrepresented the purpose of the act or has represented he is someone he is not.”
“I think it’s important because trying to deceive anyone for the purpose of sexual gratification is just wrong,” Lewis said. “Every person has the right to knowing consent. And before they consent to be intimate with anybody, they should absolutely know 100 percent who it is that they are being intimate with.
“Whether it’s as simple as say they slip off their wedding ring and then they engage in a relationship with someone, but the man or woman has no idea that the person they are with is married,” she added. “Lying to someone else for any reason is never OK, whether it be [for] a job, a relationship, criminal history, parental history, marital history . . .. When did we become a society that thinks it’s completely acceptable to lie to other people on a daily basis and think that’s morally OK?”
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