Bella Dea wrote:Rape: Forced sexual intercourse; sexual assault; sexual intercourse between an adult and a minor. Rape may be heterosexual (involving members of opposite sexes) or homosexual (involving members of the same sex). Rape involves insertion of an erect penis or an inanimate object into the female vagina or the male anus. Legal definitions of rape may also include forced oral sex and other sexual acts.
The classic concept, down thru the centuries of history,
is that rape consists of extorted penal-vaginal copulation.
Other sexual abuses have included oral or anal sodomy,
inflicted upon victims of either sex.
( We might note in passing that anal sodomy is particularly dangerous, in that this abuse
of the bowel has caused bleeding and bacterial or viral infection of the victim's blood.)
I re-iterate that I see no reason that forced sodomy of either sex
shud not be penalized as severely as rape
(
perhaps it may deserve to be criminally penalized
MORE harshly than rape )
but there is some distinction between the 2 concepts,
such that
a rape cannot happen without a vagina being involved.
However, people have used the word "rape" in metaphorical senses;
e.g., in a movie I saw a line was:
"What u call exploration, I call the rape of the Natural World."
Another example is an objection to a corporate policy,
a change in previous practice by Yahoo, in which the customer complained
that he felt like he 'd been "raped"; this had nothing to do with vaginal sex,
but was simply loose use of the language.
Legislaltors can do that too, if thay want to, and r in the mood to do it,
enacting statutes that any craziness and errors included within them.
Sometimes before thay r enacted legislators say that thay will go back
and clean it up later, in another session; i.e., thay commit legislative mistakes
KNOWINGLY.
Possibly, that can include legal definitions.
David
