
Also it’s just useless in a practical sense. Ok we’ve assumed every major politician is a pedophile. What now? We can’t get rid of all of them, guess we need to figure out who the biggest offenders are. How do we do that? By finding evidence. Then we’re back to square one. The only people who benefit from throwing facts and the legal process out the window are people like trump
Could you elaborate on that? Tbh I’m not familiar with how those laws work, I thought rape was more defined by a person physically forcing themselves on someone or something like that? Cause she was of legal age albeit very young (22). If it is as you say, how do they determine what adults can and can’t consent based on relationships?
Rape is generally defined as non consensual sexual acts, though this does also depend on state laws around sexual battery, sexual assault, and harassment and where these definitions are differentiated. Many things limit people’s ability to consent, such as age, mental capacity (including intoxication), and coercion (which would include cases of extreme power imbalance)
Appreciate it 🙏 ig I just mean, is there an agreed upon metric for types of relationships that would make sexual acts rape automatically? Like if a McDonald’s employee and manager had sex that likely wouldn’t be coercion. But at the extreme end of president and very young aid it is. Is there a meter stick for this? Or is the term rape applied as the result of jury deliberation or something?
The thresholds are different depending on state statutes and case law, but generally if someone’s livelihoods are threatened in a way a “reasonable and prudent” person would find valid, it would be considered coercive. That would be the prosecution and defense’s main argument, and ultimately decided by the jury.
In states that have clear outlines for the difference of sexual battery and assault, it would probably be considered assault instead of sexual battery. But not all states have those distinctions and it would all be under the same charge. That’s kind of the difficult with law, you can’t make super general statements bc everything is really on a state by state, case by case basis