Reply #138: It seems to me that your definition aids rapists

[quakerboy]

I hear over and over that rape is about power, not sex. But your definition as purely vaginal means that some guy can tie my wife up, and use any part of her body other than the vagina, and its not rape. Surely still some sort of assault, but not really rape. In fact, taken to its logical extreme, if what he does to her does not involve putting his penis in her vagina, then he can shove whatever else his sick mind can think of up there, and its still not rape. And that seems to me to be wrong on a whole lot of levels

dictionary.com has rape as "any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person."

Sexual intercourse seems to fall in a gray area, defined generally as genital contact, or male/female sexual penetration for purposes of procreation. But it also can be defined as other "sexual penetrative acts".


In short, I think you are absolutely wrong. Little boys are raped. Plenty of women have been raped even when their rapist forgoes shoving something inside their vaginas. And even grown men can be raped, rare though it may be.