(November 12, 2012 at 5:08 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Rape = sex without consentIt makes it something other than rape. I agree that the freedom of choice available in the west today makes this seem strange, but I also recognize that this freedom is somewhat of a rarity.
Those girls couldn't say no, so it was rape. Yeah, there have been arranged marriages past the middle ages in which a husband could force his wife to have sex with him. Does that make it okay?
The U.K. passed a law against forced marriage in 2007, so it seems to be spreading.