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Comment author: therufs 12 April 2013 04:30:29PM 7 points [-]

The statistical analysis is interesting, but the author's implicit assertion that non-forcible rape is somehow less rape-y than forcible is extremely offputting.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 12 April 2013 04:47:59PM 12 points [-]

There are necessary gradients.

I don't think my then-girlfriend waking me up with oral sex - that's sex without consent, incidentally, and she and I had a very serious conversation about that afterwards, and set some boundaries for implicit consent for future use - is the same kind of act as what is commonly thought of as rape. I certainly don't think the legal punishments should be the same.