LOS ANGELES: California colleges welcomed Monday a new law requiring so-called affirmative consent for partners having sex on campus -- dubbed a "Yes means Yes" law -- in what is thought to be a first.

Under the law, signed late Sunday by Governor Jerry Brown, partners will have to give "affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity" before they do so.

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