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LeetCheet posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

I'm still not entirely sure I understand the question, but if it's a matter of "We're all alone out here and I could totally rape you if I wanted to, so you should just consent so we don't have to go through all that unpleasantness," then I'd definitely call that rapey, if not necessarily qualifying for rape charges. It's pretty clearly using the thinly-veiled threat of forcible rape to coerce the person into non-forcible sex, and coercing people into sex is also bad.

Bottom line: If you're wondering if a scheme to convince a girl to sleep with you is rape or not, ask yourself if she'd be willing to sleep with you without the scheme. If the answer is anything other than a definite "yes," you probably shouldn't do it. Stick to sex where you are certain you have consent.

And if the roles were reversed, it wouldn't be nearly as bad because apparently men can't get taped.

Nah, it'd be just as bad. Many people don't treat it as such, but women raping men is no better than men raping women. It just gets taken less seriously because of the idea that women are so much weaker than men that men should be able to overpower them (which is kind of silly given that the people advancing such sentiments tend to also be in favour of everyone having guns to put them on equal footing with more powerful assailants), as well as the idea that men are always supposed to want sex and the subsequent assumption that there's no way a woman wanted sex when a man didn't. Obviously, neither assumption is right, but those are the attitudes that need fixing.