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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I thought lots of consensual sex was about power too.
I know that sounds kind of flip, but I'm serious. How much more about power is rape?
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can be, and likely often is at least on some level- but asserting power through sex, and asserting power through rape, are not at all the same thing.
When having sex, asserting some power is part of the natural order of things- dominance, etc (this does not always happen with humans, especially these days, though i'm sure it's still very much in practice with lots of cultures and societal groups). But rape is not about the sex- it's about asserting power. There are many ways to assert power over another, and rape is just one way to do it.
The main issue is, you're comparing sex and rape, and they're not at all the same thing; we would never use the phrases "had sex with" and "was raped by" interchangeably. This is not without reason, as the motivations and actions inherent to each are so different.