Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Associated Press reports. It doesn’t make it a crime involving jail time but instead allows for lawsuits over nonconsensual condom removal.
It now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia has championed such a move for several years. Recent studies have indicated that both women and gay men are increasingly reporting secret condom removal by their sexual partners.
The practice is known as “stealthing.”“It’s disgusting that there are online communities that defend and encourage stealthing and give advice on how to get away with removing the condom without the consent of their partner, but there is nothing in law that makes it clear that this is a crime,” Garcia said in a statement.Garcia originally sought to make.