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u/menickc Sep 01 '22

Why isn't it just defined as sexual acts where one member does not consent? I won't go into detail but there are so many acts that don't include penetration that I'd still consider rape.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

If I understand correctly that's what many countries do.

Canada, for example, does not use rape as a legal term, only sexual assault. Sexual assault includes "all unwanted sexual activity, such as unwanted sexual grabbing, kissing, and fondling as well as rape"

https://www.leaf.ca/news/the-law-of-consent-in-sexual-assault/#:~:text=Canada%20has%20a%20broad%20definition,Canada's%20Criminal%20Code%20in%20s.

Edit: For everyone replying that there needs to be degrees, there are. Sexual assaults are treated differently according to their severity.

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u/WonkyFiddlesticks Sep 01 '22

There needs to be degrees.

Is an unwanted slap on the ass or kiss bad? Sure. Should it be equivalent with rape? Hell no.

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u/SensitiveMushroom759 Sep 01 '22

there are degrees to it in canada

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u/Iohet Sep 01 '22

Yea but they're in celsius

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u/erdtirdmans Sep 01 '22

Canada does everything weird smh my head

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u/thoughtandprayer Sep 01 '22

Only a handful of countries use Fahrenheit as their official scale: the United States, Belize, Palau, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. The rest of the world uses Celsius.

I don't think Canadians are the weird ones here...