Is there a new legal obligation that has arisen in the context of the sexual assault statute?

This conclusion can result only from a blind adherence to strict legal principles. Thus, while it is true that a "new" legal obligation has arisen, the fact is inescapable that its origin lay in the old one; and to ignore the obvious "instead of subserving the fundamental purposes of the statute * * * rather tends to bring about unfortunate if not irrational results." McIntyre v. Kavanaugh, 242 U.S. 138, 141, 37 S.Ct. 38, 40, 61 L.Ed. 205 (1916).