Raping an inflatable doll? What a concept. How would one determine whether 'she' was willing or unwilling? For all we know, she is in love and they are on their honeymoon. How would one determine the feelings of a sheep? We can guess that the sheep would not be feeling a great deal of passion, but 'unwilling'? Who knows? What we do know is that the shepherd who is doing these things is doing them because to him they are sexually exciting. Would it be rape if the shepherd engaged in sufficient and ingenious enough foreplay with his sheep, perhaps incorporating some sheep scents and a few bleating sound effects, that she began to trot with apparent enthusiasm over to the shepherd whenever he whistled? Would it then be a sexual activity for the sheep and also one for the man? What if the sheep seemed on sunny days reluctant to put out for the shepherd, but on cloudy ones, appeared to return his passion. Would you say that the shepherd's erection and ejaculation were sexual when there were clouds in the sky and non-sexual when the sun shone?
Don't you see that 'sexual activity' is not definable ideologically? That it makes sense to say that if any person or other creature engages in an activity, however repellent or peculiar or mysterious or violent or ugly or ludicrous or nutz or taboo, that they engage in because they want to and it excites them and they seek an orgasm and find one, then they are engaging in an activity that is, for them, sexual.
In fact, I believe you granted earlier, Blue, that it's sex for the rapist but not for the victim.
For the victim, it's lying there waiting until it's over, maybe experiencing pain, to see if she will live or die. |
