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Originally Posted by Hektore
OHHH!!!! That's where all the confusion is coming from. Had I known you didn't know what rape was from the start, we could have cut this conversation much shorter. Rape has got nothing to do with penetration, other than it's part of the definition of the act of sexual intercourse. Rape is when sexual intercourse takes place with at least one party being non-consenting. Either they were unable to consent (physically incapacitated or ineligible to consent such as the case of small children) or their withholding of consent was ignored.
PS: Anyone who can get an erection can have penetrative sex (I suppose this is in opposition to unpenetrative sex? whatever that is). Males are capable of erections from birth.
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Because of the element of consent, rape can even take place within the context of marriage. According to Hines and Malley-Morrison (2005), 10-14% of wives have been raped by their husbands; the figures are inexact because it's so difficult to get a precise measurement of something as complicated as marital rape. The text also states that there is reason to believe this could go the other way, as violence is perpetrated by women against men (7% of men have been physically assaulted by an intimate partner), but that no studies have been done on it.
The Hines/Malley-Morrison text also includes a case study of a young man who had been raped since childhood by his grandmother; she had done the same to his father and uncles as they were growing up.
And what Idyllic had to say about women being the predominant physical abusers of children is also true, unfortunately (Sedlak and Broadhurst, 1996; among others).
I happen to have all of these statistics on hand because I'm actually studying for a final right now in a class called Child Abuse and Neglect; it also includes interpartner violence.