Condom ‘stealthing’ is a vile practice. California is right to ban it | Moira Donegan

Twelve per cent of women have experienced stealthing - and 10% of men have perpetrated it. The law is finally catching up

She told him a condom was non-negotiable," and that if he would rather not use one, she would leave. The young woman, identified as Sara" in a 2017 study, describes the encounter, saying, I set a boundary. I was very explicit." Yet she then discovered that her partner, a man she'd been seeing for a couple of weeks, had secretly removed the condom during sex.

I ended up talking to him about it later," Sara told the study's author, the feminist civil rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky. He told me, Don't worry about it, trust me.' That stuck with me, because he'd literally proven himself to be unworthy of my trust."