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...Maybe it's a sign of the times -- or just a gimmick -- but celebrities, athletes and high-powered business executives who want protection from potential rape or other sexual charges can now obtain consent forms for their would-be partner to sign, acknowledging the pair is about to engage in consensual sex. "This really is for someone you don't know," said attorney Evan Spencer, who wrote the one-page, "pre-sexual agreement" form for Colorado-based Protect Condoms Inc. "If you're a professional athlete on the road, and you encounter someone you don't know, certainly a person who is a man of means will want to be protected by something like this."

The company has sold more than 4,000 forms at $7.99 each, according to president Nelson Banes. The standard consent forms are one-page documents to be signed by two parties, both of whom agree "to engage in any and all sexual acts legally permissible under state and federal law with consentee," according to the Protect Condoms form, which includes two condoms in its package.

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