Allowed
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A porn executive rapes one of his actresses, and the defense is allowed to play a porn video she recorded three weeks before the rape - where she seductively talks to the executive, nothing more - and uses it against her to claim that she consented to the sex on the night of the rape.
Source: Series / Law & Order -
Part of this may have been due to an earlier invocation of this trope that ended catastrophically for Germany — in the Weimar Constitution, during emergencies, the Chancellor could be allowed to rule by decree if the Reichstag consented for the duration of the emergency.
Source: Godzilla Threshold
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Consented and Allowed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allowed/consented
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