Reply #163: could also be the legal definition of rape

[TorchTheWitch]

In many states the legal definition of "rape" is only penatration with a penis... any penatration with some other appendage or object is the legal definition of "sexual assault".

This was an issue in the Duke lacrosse case as there was an uproar when it was found that the alleged victim admitted she did not know if she was legally "raped" or not because she was not completely sure if what she alleged she was penatrated with was a penis or an object because she was not in a position to see exactly what it was.

I'm guessing the media in this boy's case is using the "sexual assault" term as it is probably the legal term that defines rape as penatration only with a penis and why the criminals in this case are being charged with sexual assault rather than rape.

I think these laws that differentiate rape from sexual assault by the appendage/object used are absurd... to the victim it hardly matters what exactly they were penatrated with.

Personally, I think that arguing whether or not this boy was or wasn't anally penetrated with an object is going so far out on a limb as to be clinging to the very edge of a leaf.