Baker also argues that the Harm Principle provides an important constraint, as it prevents the consenter from being criminalized because it is only harm to others that is criminalisable under the Harm Principle-not harm to self.

See Sargent v. Sargent, Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1920 (Held a man who had not taken active steps to prevent his wife's adultery was not entitled to divorce because he was a participator and consenter to her adultery).

At the Japan Society on Wednesday, the two pieces were presented as a double bill: "Taniko" ("The Valley Rite") performed by the Nohgaku-za of Tokyo and "Der Jasager" ("The Consenter"), in English by American singers.