Many sexual encounters, of course, involve deception at some level. It is probably a minority of men who can honestly swear that they have never bigged up some aspect of their lives – their earnings, perhaps, or their professional status – in order to impress a girl. To do so, thankfully, doesn't yet make you a rapist, although at least one academic lawyer has argued, with cold logic, that any deception in pursuit of sex – falsely telling someone that you love them, for example – should invalidate the resultant consent. Turning the entire population into sex offenders seems to him a worthwhile price to pay for making the law consistent and logical.