[#3Fan]

What part of 'carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and unlawfully against her will' don't you understand? From a more modern dictionary, maybe it doesn't contain those big words that seem to trip you up: 'The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.'

So you're including everything as rape then. Slapping a woman's butt is rape?

You think all sodomy is rape? From the charges: Assault with intent to commit sodomy (an assault against a human being and must be committed with a specific intent to commit sodomy) It's not consenual.

Why were 350 cases called rape if they had another name for it?

[4CJ]

So you're including everything as rape then. Slapping a woman's butt is rape?

No on both counts.

Why were 350 cases called rape if they had another name for it?

I don't know - invent a time machine and ask them. Maybe they didn't kill the women, maybe they weren't personal friends with Lincoln .