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You do know this happened in Canada,right?

There are all sorts of sports assault cases here, people have gone to jail, NHL players have been charged.

The prosecutors did not know about the emails or the repeated contact. That much has been made clear.

The Supreme court is rather clear on this issue of consent and assault....

But, when it comes to BDSM – or at least its more intense versions – the law doesn’t actually care about consent. The Supreme Court has said that a person cannot consent to an assault that causes bodily harm. While the cases have typically arisen in the context of bar room brawls or hockey violence, other courts have applied the same reasoning to the sexual context. So, if a sexual activity causes bodily harm, a person cannot consent to it.