gof22 said:
Considering Spider-Man and How I Met Your Mother are both works of fiction I don't see how people can get mad about this stuff.
sneakypenguin said:
Rev Erebus said:
My god why can't people just accept dumb entertainment at face value.
I know it, now we get 3 pages of "serious" posting about law and debate about if its rape or not.
Sparrow said:
Yeah, I'd totally be shocked and horrified... if it weren't a freaking TV show. People get massacred in hoardes on TV shows, but you don't hear people crying "Oh, the humanity! All those innocent, real people are dying!".
I don't see why that shouldn't relate to rape.
I don't think anyone here is actually getting mad about any of this. It's just an interesting question (as I posed in the OP). But, exclude the shows from it. The law itself says what I wrote, is that right? Should the law distinguish between a "good" reason to have sex, and a "bad" one, and give one more protection than the other.
This isn't about the show itself, it's an interesting question and discussion to have about the law. And, frankly, if you can't add anything more to the discussion than "durr, it's just a television show, who cares?" without even considering the nuanced and intriguing nature of the law in question, I'd kindly ask that you GTFO.
Woodsey said:
What you're saying doesn't make any sense. If a woman agrees to have sex with you, then it's consensual, then it's not rape.
Well, no, not really. Every state has an exception for when the woman is unable to give consent, and in many states it's even more stringent than that. You can disagree with the law itself, but what I'm saying is an accurate representation of what the law holds to be true: if you deceive a woman into having sex with you, and she has a "good motive" for doing so, it can be rape.
Sex based on deceit and fraud can be rape. That's not a postulation, or an argument, that's the law.
