Rape : Semantics, Definitions and Culture

[ProjectEuropa]

I've been waiting for the tag team to target me. LOL. I'm undecided if you and ProjectEuropa are just like minded and enjoy ganging up on others or if you're the same guy posting under 2 different names.

I still stand on my original thought that saying if a literal word doesn't exist in another culture then the concept and practice of it doesn't exist there either is at best silly.

Wooh! I've just got back from a trip to the US and it seems I am a part of a controversy. All I can say is that I am not Donatien and I am not aware of any ganging up on anyone.

Without wanting to put oil on the fire, I stand by my assertion that crimes are culturally defined and how a criminal act is defined and labelled can make profound differences in the perception of the same act from one culture to another. Almost to the point of the same act being almost unrecognizeable between cultures. Rape is a provocative crime to use as an example but rape was part of the discussion and like any other crime rape still has to be defined for us to recognise it.

There is a culture that straddles NW China and Mongolia where what we in the west would call abduction and rape is how a male finds a female partner. From what I understand the act is not ritualistic but very real and the culture does not perceive the act as abduction and rape.

Enough said.