I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. The reason rape is defined as forcing someone to be engaged in what we think of as a sex act is because we have already defined sex as the most intimate, private thing one person can do with another. Plus, there are long-standing conventional norms about women’s value (especially) with regard to chastity, etc. It’s the best way to humiliate and dominate someone because as a society we’ve defined it that way. If the most personal thing you could do with someone is touch their feet, forcing someone to do THAT against their will would be rape. And including any further violence, such as a knife or gun or awl would make it aggravated rape, or in the worst case scenario rape and murder.
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