Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Most eminently not nonsense.

"Injury" is why rape should be treated as assault.
Physical injury and religious guilt are not the only forms of trauma rape victims suffer from, like I said earlier. Being raped involves having your body forcefully used by another person. The nature of the crime goes above and beyond ordinary assault, which in and of itself is not "trivial".

I've been doing some research and trying to find information on how rape is experienced by the victims in more sexually-permissive societies but so far I've come up with nothing. I did find this article though, on whether or not rape is universal: Is Rape a Cultural Universal? A Re-examination of the Ethnographic Data

One anthropologist wrote that:

"Nowadays the nearest approach to rape would appear to be the kind of seduction tactic used
by some men when they accost a woman working alone in a secluded garden. Such men wait
in hiding until the woman starts out for home with a heavy load of firewood and produce on
her back. The seducer then sneaks up behind her and topples her backward by pulling on the
heavy load she carries. The woman's burden helps to keep her pinned to the ground so that
the man has less difficulty in holding her. Moreover, all informants agree, 'women who work
alone in gardens don't dislike being accosted and don't fight very hard.'"

So it appears that maybe this is one instance where the victims don't suffer very much from being raped, however we don't know if the women really "don't dislike being accosted" or if the informants were just justifying their own actions.

Also, according to the article rape is punished even in societies which are supposedly accepting of rape. At any rate it is clear that the victimization of sex crimes is not just a symptom of Judeo-Christian morality.