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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Look, rape isn't inherantly sexual; most of the time it's about power. You could call it "assault with penis". Why is rape different from simple assault from the legal point of view? Because it's percieved so very differently by the victim!
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Yes, it is partly how the victim percieves the attack. But I don't buy the "rape is about power" thing for a second. Power may be part of it, but rape IS inherently sexual, otherwise it wouldn't be rape, it would be intimidation or assault.
Basically I consider sexual assault to be assualt dealing with sexual organs, which the rectum is not; an assualt that attacker "gets off on", or depending on the case, an assault where the victim has a reasonable* feeling of sexual violation.
*Reasonable meaning that the victim isn't taking things way out of hand, i.e. a woman is touched on the shoulder by a man she doesn't like and she calls it sexual assault, is out of hand.