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Megan Barton-Hanson described what happened as “shocking”
A former Love Island contestant says it “took her breath away” to discover that someone removing a condom during sex is classified as rape.
Stealthing, as it is known, happens when someone removes a condom during consensual sex without informing the other person.
Megan Barton-Hanson says she experienced this up to six times, with a man claiming the condom had split on each occasion, leading to her having an abortion.
“I didn’t know it was a crime,” the 30-year-old tells the BBC.
“I just thought that’s something between partners that you have to discuss with them.”
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Megan added that she knew his actions were “unfair and unjust” but it was only in a recording of the We Need to Talk podcast, when host Paul C Brunson told her, that she realised the man’s actions were rape.
“I’d never heard of stealthing, ever,” she says.
“When we started to have sex, the condom was obviously on – that was fine – and then at the end, he’d removed it intentionally but his excuse was ‘it split and it broke’.
“It was shocking.”
The Metropolitan Police says stealthing is a slang word but the practice is legally considered rape, although pros
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