Reply #33: Not quite. [View All]

[TheWraith]

"but it usually takes some degree of cooperation from the guy is she is the aggressor."

Just curious, but isn't that the same argument used to say that women wearing jeans can't be raped, because they would have to be cooperating to take them off?

If a woman pulls a knife on you (or a male friend/family member), says "Take off your pants," and proceeds to have sex with you at knifepoint, do you count that as 'cooperation'?

Your anecdote about the case in Utah shows why such cases are so rarely reported: no one will believe a man who claims to have been sexually assaulted. Society says that men are supposed to be mindless woodies willing to screw anyone, any time, so 'logic' dictates that it's impossible for a man not to want sex.

That same logic says that it's okay for the woman in Florida to have sex with a 14-year old boy, because he's a mindless sex object, ignoring the possibility that despite the raging hormones she took advantage of, he might find the situation uncomfortable, confusing, intimidating, even scary. I see little difference between his potential feelings and those of a girl in the same situation.