• magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Yeah. That’s the only attitude that makes the French legal definition of rape barely tolerable.

    France, for instance, considers that rape can be considered to have occurred when “an act of sexual penetration or an oral-genital act is committed on a person, with violence, coercion, threat or surprise.”

    Far from ideal, but it leaves enough room for interpretation that a decent judge can work with it. Unfortunately, that same leeway can also allow a shitty judge to let scumbags off easy.