Reply #219: I understand your point [View All]

[ismnotwasm]

But The act of violent penetration, (or whatever) isn't necessarily a sexual act, it may be perceived as a sexual act by the rapist. There are a lot of psycho-social reasons why it isn't, or shouldn't be considered sex. Rape isn't considered worse than 'normal' violence in my opinion, it's in it's own category.

Think; Rape of women, rape of men, rape of children, rape of babies vs Murder of women, murder of men, murder of children, murder of babies

What I argue, is allowing the rapist to define 'sex' or even 'sexual violence' is empowering to the rapist. He doesn't get to call it sex on his say so just because it's his own definition. The victim doesn't perceive it to be sex, not even non-consensual violent sex. It certainly isn't sex to a raped infant.