If a party to sexual activity is underage, he/she can be the sexual aggressor and the of-age person be guilty of rape. 14 year old girl sneaks into drunk asleep 50 year old man’s apartment and rapes him. T.S., buddy. You’re the rapist. And, you’re in line for 18 years of child support if you manage to stay out of…

Perhaps the rape, or miscommunication, was Abby’s fault.

Perhaps she exercised poor judgment. Perhaps she was foolish. Perhaps she was downright stupid. Contributory negligence, maybe? OK, she was 25% at fault, so reduce his 10 year sentence to 7½ years.

People can enjoy eating boxes of Krispy Kremes and not want to get fat.

Strange. Decades ago it was the Republicans who were in favor of lenient abortion laws. The Liberals saw abortion as an affront to women’s dignity and a violation of the (constitutional) rights of unborn persons. Famous Liberals like Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sen. Teddy Kennedy spoke emotionally against abortion.

Killing babies doesn’t cure any diseases.

There are many strains of HPV. Some, not all, are associated with cancer.

Not if she didn’t mind. She wouldn’t have felt raped, so it wouldn’t have been rape. It wasn’t until she learned what really happened that she felt that she’d been raped. That made it rape.

No, no, no. It’s not rape until the sleeper wakes up and decides that s/he was raped that it’s rape. If the now-awake former sleeper doesn’t feel raped, it wasn’t rape. If s/he decides that s/he wants the “rapist” for dates, s/he wasn’t raped. For sentient adults, rape on its own is a state of mind. I’ve been “sexed”…

Double jeopardy protection doesn’t come into effect until the jury begins deliberations. The appeals court recommended/directed the prosecution to try him on a different charge.

If rape was made a capital crime again, only rapists who murdered and ate their victims raw would ever go to the chair/get the IV. The rest would fight tooth-and-nail the moment the prosecutor introduced the death penalty, anti-death penalty advocates groups would rush to their defense, and many rape victims would…

This particular woman appears to me to have neglected her own safety, though not nearly as much as many do. Guess women need to demand that the “Patriarchy” do a better job of protecting its “daughters.”

More likely Asian/Oriental as the main force of prejudice in Californica back then was against Oriental people, not Black, of whom there were few on the Left Coast then.

“...only about 9 in 100 rape victims in the USA ever see their case brought to trial...”

It wasn’t rape until she woke up and felt (decided that she had been) raped. If she hadn’t cared, or even thought he was hot!!, it wouldn’t have been rape. A “rape ‘victim’” who doesn’t feel raped isn’t a rape victim. Maybe statutory if s/he is under age, but not just plain rape.

Great! You’ve hit on the solution to the rape problem! Hold up signs “DON’T TELL ME NOT TO GET RAPED! TELL MEN NOT TO RAPE!!” in ALL CAPS of course! Presto! No more rapes!

What if he didn’t wake up until long after she had left, she had wiped all her juices off him, and the first inkling he got that something had happened was a year later when he was served a subpoena to his paternity hearing? Or to his state child support hearing?

Not all fagg... uh, gays want their anuses shredded. Some like oral only, some only hug, kiss and cuddle.

It may mean, though, that if he does, he won’t be convicted or even prosecuted with dismissal or acquittal ensuing.

Do you have any examples of matriarchal societies or anarchical societies in which rape never is committed? Just wondering. If you have any such examples, how do they prevent rapes? Don’t forget that women rape men, too.