# Which T.V. Series features the greatest number of Sexual Assaults (Would Happy Days make the Top 5)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836 "2013-12-08T17:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/21 "2013-12-09T17:06:54Z")
Re: Kirk & sexual assault: I can’t recall him ever coming close, except perhaps with the slave girl in the gladiator episode – and in that case, I strongly suspect she was in similar straits as the Mila Kunis character in _The Book of Eli_. Also, in the episode with the telekinetics perverts and Dr. Lovelace, Kirk was fighting NOT to do anything to or with Uhura. If the TPs had forced them to have sex, it would have been rape, but by the TPs, not by Kirk. He was pretty much a living dildo to them. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/22 "2013-12-09T17:18:00Z")
er, I said in Post 18 that on closer inspection, according to the OP, he’s out of the running. So, few-to-no sexual assualts. I withdraw him for consideration. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/23 "2013-12-10T00:45:27Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > OK, how about M_A_S\*H? Hawkeye was a serial groper early on. > [@bienville](#): > > The thing about _Happy Days_ and _M_A_S_H\*, is that these were family viewing for an entire generation. This kind of sexual assault was taught to children at an impressionable age as acceptable social interaction. ISTM that particularly with M_A_S\*H part of the conceit was to present the battlefield setting as leading to a forming of an alternate morals environment more similar to c. 1970 subculture than to 1950s Army officers (because the TV show was of course not about the 1950s, really). The nurses tended to either welcome or laugh off Hawkeye’s advances. With _Happy Days_ it would be sort of an unironic evocation (again through a 1970s prism) of an idealized version of the social norms of the age – the sort of thing that we now look at _critically_ in _Mad Men_, for instance. I’d bet quite a few 1950s girls getting harassed that way would have administered some slaps or else gone to look for their big brothers to come and teach the boys what is and isn’t a funny gag. (However at the same time I can get it that in this cases there was no _mens rea_ for assault, the characters would have been honestly just driving the plot point “don’t be uptight”.) > [@Trinopus](#): > > I can’t swear to any exhaustive knowledge, but generally, these two shows showed “seduction” scenes rather than “assault” scenes. […] he didn’t commit sexual assault…because the writers were so much on his side, all the women just took one look at him and said “Yes.” Yeah, Secret Agents were a Special Case. Austin Powers’ “do I make you horny” gag does bring up how your average pop superspy in the presence of a female fellow agent, enemy henchwoman, or incidental passerby would given enough time provoke her to just throw herself at him. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/24 "2013-12-10T01:14:50Z")
[Luke and Laura.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_and_Laura#Rape) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/25 "2013-12-10T03:04:06Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > . . . Yeah, Secret Agents were a Special Case. . . . In the book Goldfinger, Bond pretty clearly rapes Pussy Galore. (And she loves it so much, she switches loyalties, betrays Goldfinger, loves Bond, etc. Ick.) In the movie the matter is handled a little more tastefully. (One of the most outstanding examples I know of the movie being much better than the book.) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/26 "2013-12-10T03:17:04Z")
That 70’s Show. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/27 "2013-12-10T11:13:17Z")
Re: Family Feud (thanks, Jack Batty!) – for those who don’t know, host Richard Dawson kissed pretty much every (majority-age?) female contestant. “Consensual,” except maybe kind of a forced condition for appearing on the show (?). [5 Hilariously Awkward Richard Dawson Kisses](http://thefw.com/richard-dawson-kissing/) ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836/28 "2013-12-10T14:23:12Z")
[Rescue Me.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381798/) Tommy and Janet had a very, uh, aggressive sex life. IIRC, he pretty much raped his wife at least twice, and Sheila drugged Tommy when he refused her advances, didn’t she? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-t-v-series-features-the-greatest-number-of-sexual-assaults-would-happy-days-make-the-top-5/675836.md?page=1)