Assume that Dougherty is correct that people have the right to decide down to the last detail what comes into sexual contact with their bodies. Which of the following could you infer from that claim?
A) People have the right to decide exactly which articles of clothing they are wearing because people's clothing comes into contact with their bodies.
B) The harm explanation cannot explain the serious wrongness of nonconsensual sex with an unconscious person or with someone by means of egregious deception.
C) Someone's valid consent could be violated if he or she had an extremely idiosyncratic deal breaker such as not wanting to have sex with people whose birthdays are in April and another person born in April who didn't know this deal breaker had sex with him or her.
D) Someone's valid consent could be violated if she agreed to have sex with person A and person B and wrongly thought during the sexual encounter that she was having sex with person B when she was having sex with person

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If people have the right to decide every detail of what comes into sexual contact with their bodies, then even an idiosyncratic preference, like not wanting to have sex with someone born in April, must be respected for consent to be valid.

Assume That Dougherty Is Correct That People Have the Right