I am a woman and here is my perspective, for what it is worth. I agree with Ferdinand wholeheartedly. You can't rape a machine. Acting out a fantasy on what You know to be a non-sentient machine would not be a crime. Some men have rape fantasies…so what? A lot of women do too.

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and the kind of shunning seen on The Path is regularly practiced in that religion. You don't just get disapproval…you are completely excommunicated from your own family when you reject the belief system. Doubt is treated with the same horror. I am just lucky that my whole family got…

They also slaughtered villages, including children.