Questions and Answers

I’m confused about the story about your wife. How is it rape if she’s consenting to being hurt?

  1. It’s fiction, dummy, like everything tagged #stories. That’s not me, nor anyone I know. Or it’s an amalgam of everyone I know, depending on how you look at it.
  2. Because she isn’t consenting; she’s provoking. On a legalistic level they might seem similar, but emotionally, they’re different. Nor is she providing meta-consent… at most, she offers a highly-suspect retroactive consent, which is both a sort of forgiveness and a lie agreed upon.