# Is rape the forcing of a soul tie between the rapist and victim?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 5, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008 "2009-09-05T23:55:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008/141 "2012-08-22T07:38:45Z")

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> [@badger5149](#):
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> If the perpetrator is female boys will usually walk away unscathed.

You’ve been misinformed.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008/142 "2012-08-22T07:46:04Z")

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> [@badger5149](#):
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> If the perpetrator is female boys will usually walk away unscathed.

Tell that to Eddie Vedder

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**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008/143 "2012-08-22T09:47:53Z")

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I don’t really know what date-rape is and how it differs from other kinds of rape, but it seems to me fairly clear that rape in general (the real thing, not the silly feminist extended version) is worse than other kinds of violence partly on account of the forced intimacy – which might be described as a soul-tie if you insist. The part about transferring guilt is silly.

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**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008/144 "2012-08-22T10:00:12Z")

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Did somebody put something in the psychic well?  
I ask because ‘rape’ seems to the meme of the moment.

A really vile meme.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rape-the-forcing-of-a-soul-tie-between-the-rapist-and-victim/509008/145 "2012-08-22T10:05:41Z")

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I’m closing this (old) thread. If someone wants to start another discussion of issues like these, please go ahead. And welcome to the board, **Thundergirl**.

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