Sex For Sale

March, 1999

It's every lawyer's dream to come up with a new source of billable hours, and Jane Larson has come up with a doozy. She wants to reinvent common law to redress heartache. The University of Wisconsin law professor proposes a "tort of sexual fraud" that would enable men and women (mainly women) to sue ex-lovers for fraud when they feel jilted. "Feel" is the operative word here, for jilted women could charge fraud and collect damages whenever they felt they had traded sex or emo...