BILL COSBY ACCUSED OF RAPE

[Cutz]

Is it rape?

It depends strongly on the definitions of the legal system. I think anyone can admit that it's wrong.

Rape is pretty cut and dried when consent is not given. Either actively declined or unconscious and unable like Cosby. Both are clearly rape. What you describe is a matter of coercion. It's a much murkier legal case. Secretly drugging a person is going to be a crime, but coercion is not always.

If a couple is dating and the girl say no, and the guy says, "Come on, you've been making me wait for weeks, I'm tired of waiting. If you won't sleep with me, I'm breaking up with you." That's coercion. She may say yes at that point, but it's coerced consent. Not actual consent. You'd still have a pretty difficult case prosecuting him for rape. But again, most people will admit that it's wrong to pressure someone into sleeping with you. Both parties should be excited and engaged in physical contact.

If a guy takes a girl out for dinner and to see Eat, Pray, Love and tricks her into thinking he's a sweet guy, when really he's just maneuvering to get her in bed, we can easily call him an asshole. I wouldn't call him a rapist. Guys that liquor girls up so they'll make a mistake sleeping with him are assholes. I still wouldn't call them rapists. I think men or women that force intercourse upon an unwilling person are such criminals that I wouldn't want to water down the term "Rapist" with guys or girls who are just assholes.