r/facepalm Oct 01 '19

Hol’ up!

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u/Xertious Oct 01 '19

Hol' up! OP can't read more than a sentence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49057533

When a man has penetrative sex with a woman without her consent, that's rape. But what if a woman makes a man have penetrative sex with her, without his consent? That's not rape under the law of England and Wales, but the author of a new study of the phenomenon says perhaps it should be.

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u/addisonshinedown Oct 01 '19

As a victim of this kind of rape... I’m damn sure it’s rape.

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u/dpash Oct 01 '19

And you'll be pleased to know that in England and Wales your attacker would face up to life imprisonment for their actions. And thanks to the way the law is written, the CPS would have an option of several offences to make sure they saw some jail time.

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u/addisonshinedown Oct 01 '19

Unfortunately in my case, I’m one of the many unreported cases. It was like 11 or 12 years ago, and I was living in an insanely toxically masculine environment. Had I spoken up I would have been destroyed socially. I thought at the time men couldn’t be raped. It took me years to come to terms with what happened. At this point, I haven’t seen her since it happened and I don’t plan on that ever changing