In his 1992 book "Sex and Reason" American jurist, legal theorist and economist Richard Posner characterized the increased attention being given to date rape as a sign of the changing status of women in American society, pointing out that dating itself is a feature of modern societies and that date rape can be expected to be frequent in a society in which sexual morals vary between the permissive and the repressive. In Sara Alcid's 2013 article "Navigating Consent: Debunking the “Gray Area” Myth", she argues that dating is incorrectly believed to mean "a permanent state of consenting to sex".