[Sherman Logan]

I have always found an odd discontinuity between the “progressive” attitudes towards casual sex and rape.

If sex is something that can and should be indulged in with a recent casual acquaintance, we are saying that it has no more emotional or moral significance than having a cup of coffee together. This attitude is well demonstrated by a populat slogan from a few years back, “Sex is nature’s way of saying hello.” If so, then being forced to engage in sex should be no more damaging or desctructive than being forced to sit and drink coffee.

Yet just about everyone, including most liberals, agrees that rape is profoundly damaging. To my mind the two attitudes do not logically fit together. Either sex is something much too important to be casual about, or rape should be no big deal.

[A_perfect_lady]

Either sex is something much too important to be casual about, or rape should be no big deal.

That's a good point. I never thought of that.

[dmz]

If so, then being forced to engage in sex should be no more damaging or desctructive than being forced to sit and drink coffee.

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Very strange, almost bizarre, take on this topic.

Is there a difference between freely giving money to charity and armed robbery? If so, what is that difference? Then substitute casual consentual sex and rape into the equation. I think the difference will become clearer to you.

[Future Snake Eater]

If so, then being forced to engage in sex should be no more damaging or desctructive than being forced to sit and drink coffee.

Um....what?