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Capt. Catherine Mumford, Spotlight on Stealthing. JAG Reporter, 12 July 2023.

Sexually active communities are home to a myriad of colorful terms, language, and labels, which are used to identify safe practices and commonalities, as well as dangerous, violent, or coercive situations one may encounter. One such term, “stealthing,” has been in use since 2014 to describe a dangerous, potentially violent, sexually coercive situation in which (1) consent to sexual activity is conditional upon the use of a physical sexual barrier (e.g., a condom); and (2) the physical sexual barrier is either removed or sabotaged by one partner without the knowledge or consent of the other.

BZ to the author for recognizing that cases from foreign jurisdictions can inform U.S. military justice practice.