In this lecture, Professor Jianlin Chen (UChicago LLM’09, JSD’15) will critically compare the criminalization of fraudulent sex (i.e., use of deception to obtain sex) in China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Professor Chen will argue that sexual autonomy protection is not the key driver behind fraudulent sex criminalization in the surveyed jurisdictions. Rather, the relevant sexual offence provisions are essentially employed to police distinct types of false representation.
