I’m sure rape laws do vary from state to state (I’m British, and our legal definition probably varies too.) However, most definitions are likely to involve force or threat of injury, rather than pressure or blackmail (including over a job).
It is fairly simple to find states’ rape laws. I did so in a couple of minutes. Most of the laws include in first-degree rape or first-degree sexual assault (not every state uses the term “rape”) some clause referring to the victim being incapable of consent due to alcohol, drugs or some other mental deficiency. Some laws include clauses that could count blackmail or coercion as part of the rape. Others do not and other relegate it to lesser forms of sexual assault. However, such an act could be counted as a kidnapping charge, which ironically tends to carry a harsher sentence than many rape laws.
Similarly, I found this legal definition of rape:
“The crime of rape (or “first-degree sexual assault” in some states) generally refers to non-consensual sexual intercourse that is committed by physical force, threat of injury, or other duress. A lack of consent can include the victim’s inability to say “no” to intercourse, due to the effects of drugs or alcohol. Rape can occur when the offender and victim have a pre-existing relationship (sometimes called “date rape”), or even when the offender is the victim’s spouse.
Under a variation known as “statutory rape,” some states make it unlawful for an adult to engage in sexual intercourse with a person who has not reached the age of consent (usually 18 years of age).”
If one were inclined to actually find the legal standard for rape in the United States, one could with great ease. One did not, which implies that one’s reasoning has very little to do with actual definitions and more to do with one’s personal belief that no woman can forcibly sexually assault a man or boy.
In that case it becomes sexual assault at the most rather than rape. This doesn’t mean it wasn’t traumatic, or that “Mike” doesn’t deserve sympathy.
Actually, it does considering that the only reason one is not calling his assault rape is because of his gender and one’s political views, not because of what the rapist did to him.
However, given that men are stronger than women in all but a few cases, rape of men by women is very rare.
That is quite the logical fallacy and also quite unlikely. Following that logic, no child can assault an adult, no boy can rape a woman, no dog, cat, tiger, lion or wolf can harm a human, no insects can harm humans, snakes cannot take down larger animals, etc. Just because something or someone is seemingly bigger, taller and stronger does not mean someone smaller, shorter and physically weaker than them cannot overpower and control them.
The reason women raping men and boys seems rare is because the victims are extremely unlikely to report it and, to be blunt, it is because of the kinds comments one has made on this site why those victimized men and boys do not come forward. And in all likelihood, there are probably men and boys who will (or have) happen upon this article and read one’s comments and keep silent rather than come forward.
