@stellas wrote:
In my opinion if the girl isnt physically hurt then its not rape, because she didnt fight back,
😯 .. just read this… you ARE joking … right? 😯
Yeah. I tend to go a bit ‘black and white’ on issues like these, but rape is a very complicated thing. Rape is (in the most basic sense) unwanted penetrative sex, which is something that we normally associate with a masked guy attacking women in alleys. Using any means to have sex with a women against her will is rape, regardless of if she fights back or not. And that’s the way it should be.
I think the average rape conviction rate in the UK is currently 5 or 6%. Very low, but that’s because most of the time it’s a case of her word against his, and our law courts used to be based around that fact that you were innocent until proven guilty. But rather than spending more money on forensics, community support, psychiactric evaluation, county wide specialist rape units and more policemen/women, the government just changes the law. Now it’s up to a man accused of rape to prove that he’s guilty. Hell, why not extend that to all crimes?
They could catch a lot more ‘terrorists’ if they had to prove their innocence, rather than us proving their guilt. Of course that would mean a lot more innocent people would end up in prison…