# a question about rape **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 8, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449 "2000-09-08T03:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxwell_Edison)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/21 "2000-09-08T22:06:58Z")
I think you’re talking about “Too Close For Comfort” that starred Ted Knight and that idiot Jim J. Bullock. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/22 "2000-09-08T23:21:45Z")
That’s it, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/23 "2000-09-08T23:32:58Z")
For that matter (the Too Close for Comfort episode), there’s an episode of Taxi where Alex talks about how he was raped by his wife while handcuffed in a prison holding cell. They didn’t use the word “rape” and it was intended more in humor than some social message, however he didn’t want to do it but couldn’t get away from her. ---
**Author:** ![nOmega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nOmega)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/24 "2000-09-09T07:47:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ashtar \* > \*\*I’ve always believed that males are more inherently -sexual- than women. And I dare anyone to disagree with me! > \*\* That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. Anyway, as was wondering the same thing as the OP a while back and I found stuff on the internet about 3 ways this can happen: a) Through the use of… prosthesis, b) Through forced arousal, such as during sleep, or arousing someone when they don’t want to be aroused, c) Putting something into a guys anus, to push on the prostate which apparently causes an erection. BTW, Ashtar as in the crazy UFO cult? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/25 "2000-09-09T16:03:11Z")
wow, can’t believe no one else has mentioned oral sex. the most obvious way a woman could rape a man would be to force him to perform oral sex on her. penil arousment wouldn’t be an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/26 "2000-09-09T21:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Grither \* > > I’m sure it wasn’t your intent to equate being gay with serious depravity (was it?), but isn’t that rather what this statement is doing? Last I heard, depravity was the **only** reason for rape, and it was largely a separate issue from sexual orientation. > > I don’t agree that saying “A or C” equates A with C. I do agree that **Ashtar’s** post was clumsily worded, but I don’t think it was intentionally or implicitly homophobic. > Sua \*\* Clumsily worded, yes–and I apologize for that. 🙂 I’ve been in a bit of a rush lately trying to unpack and re-pack a lot of stuff. (Recently moved—twice. :P) and didn’t think long enough to make my argument as well as I should have. And I think Grither answered his own question–I wasn’t equating homosexuality with depravity, if I intended to I would have used the word ‘and’ instead of ‘or’ in the argument. I -am- gay (sorry, ladies!), so if you’d like a convenient excuse and apology rolled into one–there ya go. And when I say gay, I don’t mean ‘happy’, I mean it’s long, it’s wet, it’s throbbing, and I love it. 😛 Oh–and to answer **nOmega’s** question–I know about the weird UFO cult thingy you mentioned, but my screen name comes from an abbreviation of ‘Ash Tarquin’. 🙂 My alias. -Ashley (Who’s pondering looking up that weird cult thingy again just to see if it still exists.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449/27 "2000-09-09T23:30:23Z")
There’s also cases of diminished capacity, which in some states extends as far as drunkenness. In Pennsylvania, at least, if two people have sex while one is drunk, and the person who was drunk later (while sober) claims that the act was not consentual, then it’s considered rape, regardless of who was of which gender. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-rape/32449.md?page=1)