• its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Love the wording for the charges, “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent”.

    That’s an awful lot of words for rape.

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      The wording covers men and women. In the US rape is usually defined as vaginal penetration. Sex acts is usually defined as everything but vaginal.

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        1 year ago

        …it’s from a odd technicality where on ol’ blighty, a male can’t be “raped” because of how the laws are written. Call it a peculiarity of their system or sexism, but it results in oddly sounding charges like what you see reported at least.