Thorny subject. But I think forced penetration and/or forced oral sex is quite clearly rape. Anything else is questionable. If we're trying to be precise, here.
You're the one trying to be precise here, not me. You realize you're establishing a standard now that is going to be used against you in this thread. So in your mind, unless there's "penetration", there's no rape...it's just "groping" which is A-OK by you and shouldn't disqualify anyone, even if the groping was of children and pre-teens?
I mean, if we're going to start calling groping "rape", then I myself have been raped by many a drunk woman at the bar. Can't believe I ever recovered from all those rapes. Shiver-me-timbers ...
So when a woman is in a bar and she's being groped, she's not being assaulted because it's not your definition of rape?
Yes. Unless there's penetration OF SOME KIND, it's not rape. Except maybe in certain unusual circumstances that aren't jumping readily to mind.
I didn't say groping was "a-OK", and I didn't say groping can't be construed as sexual assault.
This is not a black and white issue. There are varying degrees of severity, like in most things. See, with those women in the bar, I didn't really care. If I wanted to make a big deal out of it, I could have possibly gotten them in trouble (though I'd have been regarded as a massive ****). To sit there and try to equate what they did (Groping, IE grabbing me in sensitive places, in these particular cases, without my consent) to being held down and viciously raped is just despicable to me.