Indeed there is - and we have clear laws in place for that eventuality. People who lack capacity, those with learning disabilities and those who have been threatened are covered.

There’s a fine line to be drawn though between retrospectively feeling coerced and being coerced - and one that is difficult to draw a legal distinction within. The discourse currently seems to suggest if you made a bad choice, that the choice clearly wasn’t yours. That is a difficult legal situation and involves subjective thought.

I always go back to the Lewinsky and Clinton thing. This was initially blamed on her like he was an innocent party seduced by a young temptress. No. He was a grown ass man who should’ve known better. Now the narrative is being rewritten, he was the President she was an intern, it must’ve been coercion. No. She had still been an adult for 4 years, she might’ve been inexperienced at adulting but she still made an active choice. Blame for that clusterfuck needs to be shared between the adults.

Coercion is easy to claim in retrospect but difficult to prove in practice. There needs to be an ongoing pattern which is strongly evidenced. It isn’t quite as simple as ‘people say yes’ but everyone needs to be aware that saying yes presents a difficult legal barrier against prosecution. I argued such a position in one of my most recent articles. I’ll find the link when I’m not on my phone.