In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.
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Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of 'sex' they were not coerced enough.
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