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  • Any legal definition of ˜rape™ implies some correlative idea of what is morally wrong with rape: its illegitimate use of force, its disregard of the victim's nonconsent, and so on.

    Feminist Perspectives on Rape Whisnant, Rebecca 2009

  • Another alternative is to eliminate the nonconsent requirement, defining rape simply as forced sex.

    Feminist Perspectives on Rape Whisnant, Rebecca 2009

  • Most feminists see the dual requirement of force and nonconsent as redundant at best and, at worst, as defining many rapes out of existence.

    Feminist Perspectives on Rape Whisnant, Rebecca 2009

  • The legal definition of rape turns on force and nonconsent, not on the relationship between the accuser and the accused.

    Balancing Act 2008

  • The site has a nonconsent/reluctance forum, so apparently physical rape is okay.

    Seeing dark matter, and other odd science 2006

  • Daran has already pointed this out, that defendants are not saying that, “because she was potentially seeking a sexual encounter, her indications of nonconsent were invalid and I was entitled to copulate with her despite them.”

    Searching For Proof Of Resistance To Rape 2006

  • I think of rape as involving violence force, or threat of force or some other form of nonconsent.

    No, Porn Doesn’t Prevent Rape 2006

  • Fifteen states, as well as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, explicitly require both force and nonconsent to constitute rape 282 and two states appear to require a version of either force or nonconsent.

    False Rape Reports 2005

  • Despite these formal differences in the state codes, in most jurisdictions, if both force and nonconsent are present, the sexual act is rape.

    False Rape Reports 2005

  • It is simply not true that nonconsent is ‘defined by’ the use of force; force is one possible type of evidence of nonconsent.

    False Rape Reports 2005

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