So, dictionary.com defines rape as "The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse."
So here's my question; if you say something like, "Have sex with me or I swear to God I will rape you" to a person, and they acquiesce, have you raped them accidentally?
What if you add "only if you want to though, just whatever you feel like doing"?
How about instead, "I'd really like to become more intimate with you, but I don't want to ever pressure you into anything that you're not comfortable with...yet."
Or, "I love you for who you are on the inside, and I don't mean JUST the inside of your vagina, haha. So really though, I'd like to "do" you, and I hope that some day you're ready for that. I'll probably end up raping you anyway if that day never comes, just so you know."
Am I talking pure semantics here? Does the threat of eventual rape make any sex thereafter (barring apoligies or something) rape still?
Truth be told, rape was just the most provacative (read creepy) example of this sort of thing that I could think of. Blackmail is another. Would threatening to blackmail someone constitute blackmail? How specific would one have to be?
Seriously though. Don't rape anybody, intentionally or not.
Um. Ahem. Somebody should probably delete this thread.
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