Talk:Rape/Archive2

Unremitting horror and unequal distribution of victims and perpetrators among sexes?
2014 Isla Vista killings/Elliot Rodger's manifesto, Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, Charles Manson, Chimpout.com, GamerGate Holocaust Khmer Rouge, Magdalene laundry, Slavery, The Resistance Manifesto, Unabomber, Police brutality, USA PATRIOT Act. Those don't seem to be humorous additions to unremitting horror. Exiled Encyclopedist (talk) 01:01, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Colorado jail terms for rape are uncited and wrong (not that the real numbers are much better)
under the 'Historical vs. modern views of rape' section it uses a claim of Colorado laws saying that a first time offender faces 3-6 years in jail. In fact if the rape did not involve force (or drugging of victim) it's a class 4 felony which means the actual time faced is 2-8 years. Note this seems to change regularly so the example should also carry a caveat that these terms are as of 2023 that way were covered when it inevitable changes again.

The caveat about the rape being a first time offense appears to only matter in case of statutory rape. The prison term is increased if the defendant already had been found guilty of a sexual assault of a victim under the age of 15, but not for sexual assaults of anyone over the age of 15. It may be worth including a note to clarify the first offender part only matters for statutory rape.

Definition of rape
The first sentence of this article gives the definition of sexual assault in general. Rape is generally defined as a particular form of sexual assault typically involving penetration, rather than simply "any sex act in which at least one participant has not given informed consent"; that is the definition of sexual assault. In many legal systems in the West, the legal system simply calls the crime "sexual assault".Advicedoge (talk) 21:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)