Sex via coercion IS a form of rape. Coating a pile of shit in gold and diamonds doesn't make it any less shit. Victims are victims, no matter how they became victims. If there is a way to escape a situation but the victim doesn't do so (whether via terror or intimidation or whatever), it's STILL RAPE. Calling it otherwise is victim-blaming.
with the rape culture in our society, we don't have the ability to, as a culture, categorize these things without lessening some crimes when they shouldn't be, and move into victim blaming territory.
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