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(16,887 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Think:
Sex with a sleeping or intoxicated person.
Sex with a minor.
Both of those are rape, but do not necessarily involve force.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Sometimes rape is violent, and sometimes it's not.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Interesting.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Interesting that you would take that reading from my post.
Teenage girls sometimes have sex with adult men of their own free will. If the men get caught doing that, they are charged with rape. No use of force involved.
Ditto for an impaired or unconscious victim. No force involved because the victim is unable to resist. But that's rape, too.
That's why I called that a silly Venn diagram.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)rape is rape. Then it gets differentiated on whether it's Statutory, Aggravated Assault, etc.
Forcible isn't a legal term applied to rape yet. Paul Ryan made that term up.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)a diagram of rape that could be proved, it would look very different.
The problem isn't whether the victim feels she has been raped. The problem is whether the prosecutor can possibly get the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the victim was raped.
Sex with a minor can probably be verified by medical examination. But sex with a sexually active adult with whom the defendant had consensual sex within a few hours before the alleged rape would generally be hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt unless the rapist confesses.