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As both a mother and a lawyer, Frederikke Madsen worries about the consequences of the consent law. She urges parents to talk with their sons about sex before it »ends in a criminal case«.

She is worried about very young boys with a »very, very limited« sexual experience who get caught up in the consent law.

Frederikke Madsen is both a defense attorney and a mother, and she describes how she is a feminist yet still worried that a generation of very young men will get caught up in the consent law because they have not been properly taught what consent is. Foto: Thomas Borberg
Frederikke Madsen is both a defense attorney and a mother, and she describes how she is a feminist yet still worried that a generation of very young men will get caught up in the consent law because they have not been properly taught what consent is. Foto: Thomas Borberg
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Frederikke Madsen had never imagined she would end up criticizing a law designed to make it easier to secure rape convictions.

On the contrary, says the 37-year-old defense attorney when we meet her at the Advodan law office in Glostrup.

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