rape

en-verb

rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)

rapes (present singular third-person)
raping (participle present)
raped (participle past)
raped (past)

From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).

der

(obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.


statutory rape

en-noun

statutory rape (countable and uncountable, plural statutory rapes)

Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course, statuory rape provisions protect minors of both genders.)

1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72:

intellectual disability
intellectual disability

(law) An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.

lapsenraiskaus

under the legal age of consent; since 2023

under the legal age of consent; prior to 2023

törkeä lapsen seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö

törkeä seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö

with an adult who is not able to consent

fiatalkorú sérelmére elkövetett nemi erőszak


rapist

One who has committed rape; someone who raped another person.


ravish

en-verb

ravish (third-person singular simple present ravishes, present participle ravishing, simple past and past participle ravished)

ravishes (present singular third-person)
ravishing (participle present)
ravished (participle past)
ravished (past)

From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.

For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

hee ravished her, and ravished her that was an Amazon, and therefore had gotten a habit of stoutness above the nature of a woman; but having ravished her, he got a childe of her.

1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia:

A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.

1759, Voltaire, chapter 8, in Candide, archived from the original on 2010-09-03:


gang bang

gang bangs (plural)
gangbang (alternative)


date rape

However, from a more practical point of view it would be wise to adopt a distinction between "date rape" and "stranger rape" since jurors are likely to adopt such a distinction on their own.

1974, Noreen Connell, Cassandra Wilson, Rape: the first sourcebook for women, New American Library, page 155:

A rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.

In this light, it is not very surprising that so many date-rape charges fly after these "hook-ups".

2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 29:

Some even say it's not really date rape if you meet a guy at a party, hook up, and then he forces you to have sex with him.

2009, Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse, page 184:

The hospital didn't find signs of forced sex and didn't initially test for date-rape drugs — Prenter had time to dispose of his home chemistry lab. There had been circumstantial evidence that Prenter targeted other victims online. He'd hook up, drug and rape them, and drop them at their house.

2010, Allison Brennan, Love Me to Death, page 11:

The date rape brigade has arrived.

2024 August 18, Mueller, She Wrote, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-20:

A rape committed after a perpetrator first secretly administers a sedative or memory-inhibiting drug (a date rape drug) to a victim under the cover of a social setting.


ravishment

en-noun

ravishment (countable and uncountable, plural ravishments)

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raper

Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.

1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 50:

"Jesus Christ!" Grimm says, profanely pushing Hightower aside as he goes on to shoot Christmas and to emasculate him, according to the custom of lynchers punishing the dark rapers of white women.

1963, Edwin M. Moseley, Pseudonyms of Christ in the Modern Novel: Motifs and Methods, page 149:

Turning round, Cleitophon finds he is standing by a painter's studio which is exhibiting a painting of the whole story of the rape of Philomela, including the tapestry she weaves telling her own story after her raper, Tereus, has cut out her tongue.

1995, Simon Goldhill, Foucault's Virginity, page 71:

(informal) One who has commited rape; a rapist.


gang rape

gang rape (countable and uncountable, plural gang rapes)

A rape involving more than one perpetrator.


date rape drug

(informal, pharmacology) A drug with sedative, hypnotic, dissociative, or amnesiac effects which is used to assist in the commission of a sexual assault (a date rape), In particular, the drug flunitrazepam ("roofies").


cyberrape

[…] as the Baker case shows, saying that no physical attacks actually occur and that the cyberrape or cyberharassment is just "words" would not ease the feeling of violation.

1997, Ching-Yi Liu, The Regulation of Cyberspace:

(Internet) Rape in cyberspace or on the Internet.


marital rape

marital rape (countable and uncountable, plural marital rapes)


date-rape

en-verb

date-rape (third-person singular simple present date-rapes, present participle date-raping, simple past and past participle date-raped)

date-rapes (present singular third-person)
date-raping (participle present)
date-raped (participle past)
date-raped (past)


noncon

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I liked the point you made about the ep showing both consensual and noncon BDSM.

2002 February 8, atara <asta...@cyberg8t.com>, “Re: Did anyone see Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night?”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):

consensual non-consent
consensual non-consent

(BDSM) Involving consensual non-consent.


dubcon

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Clipping of dubious consent, modelled after noncon.

(fandom slang) Erotica featuring sexual relations where the presence of sexual consent is unclear.


corrective rape

en-noun

corrective rape (countable and uncountable, plural corrective rapes)

corrective + rape. First used in South Africa, in reference to the raping of lesbians.

Raping a lesbian, HRW [(Human Rights Watch)] researchers found, can make a man a township hero. Attackers boast publicly of their crimes and declare to their victims, "We'll show you you're a woman," the report said. Such attacks are known as "corrective rapes" in South Africa.

[2011 December 5, Donna Bryson, “Rights group: South African lesbians face abuse”, in Yahoo! News, archived from the original on 2012-11-12:

In early reports of corrective rape, gender non-conforming behavior among black lesbian women is cited as one of the most prevalent motivations behind the perpetration of such violence (Mufweba and Bhengu, 2003).

2021, S. J. Dodd, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 99:

The act of raping someone because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in an attempt to force the person to be heterosexual or to enforce gender stereotypes.

姦改 /奸改

raping a person because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity


ass-rape

en-verb

ass-rape (third-person singular simple present ass-rapes, present participle ass-raping, simple past and past participle ass-raped)

ass-rapes (present singular third-person)
ass-raping (participle present)
ass-raped (participle past)
ass-raped (past)
assrape (alternative)
ass rape (alternative)

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) To force anal sex upon another person.


butt-rape

butt-rape (third-person singular simple present butt-rapes, present participle butt-raping, simple past and past participle butt-raped)

butt-rapes (present singular third-person)
butt-raping (participle present)
butt-raped (participle past)
butt-raped (past)

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) To force anal sex upon another person, without their consent and/or against their will.


attempted rape

en-noun

attempted rape (countable and uncountable, plural attempted rapes)

(law) A crime in which rape was the motive for an assault, although no rape was carried out.


sexual assault

sexual assault (countable and uncountable, plural sexual assaults)

their sample consisted of a much higher percentage of sexual assault and forcible rape cases than does the sample employed in the present study

1956, Albert Ellis, Ralph Brancale, The psychology of sex offenders, page 62:

Sexual Assault Services had its inception with a two-part seminar on Sensitivity and Awareness Training for the County Attorney's staff in early 1974

1974, The Hennepin Lawyer, Volume 43, page 12:

Instead, rape became an issue when women began to compare their experiences as children, teen-agers, students, workers, and wives and to realize that sexual assault, in one form or another, was common.

1974, New York Radical Feminists, Rape: the first sourcebook for women:

Sometimes rumors of sexual assault operated prior to the riot

1975, Terry Ann Knopf, Rumors, Race, and Riots, page 62:

1978, Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents:

The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.

2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

A physical attack of a sexual nature on another person or a sexual act committed without explicit consent.


date rapist

date rapists (plural)
date-rapist (alternative)

1994. "Date Rape"
T. here is no such thing as the typical date rapist.

2009. "Sex and Society Volume 1"
The date rapist often plans a date intending to have sex with the woman.

2011. "Sex, Love, and Friendship"
Since dating behaviors are derived from the prostitution model, date rape, instead of being a crime of violence, ... The date rapist is confused.

It is very easy to fall prey to a date rapist if you are attractive and alone in a bar in a new city.

A person that commits date rape, typically a male perpetrator that commits a form of sexual assault or coercion upon a new acquaintance during what is usually a first date, either by force or with the assistance of a date rape drug.


acquaintance rape

acquaintance rape (countable and uncountable, plural acquaintance rapes)

1990. Maine Department of Public Safety,
Acquaintance rape: he's your friend--and he could rape you

Acquaintance rape has become prevalent partly because these attitudes are so pervasive.

1991, Andrea Parrot, Laurie Bechhofer, Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Crime:

1993. "Rape: The Misunderstood Crime"
Unique Qualities of Acquaintance Rape Compared to rapes by strangers

1999. Andrea Parrot,
Coping with date rape and acquaintance rape

Rape by someone known to the victim, such as date rape, marital rape, or rape by a teacher or supervisor.


rapee

Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]

1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry, volume 29:

Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.

1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85:

The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.

1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, page 274:


gray rape

gray rape (countable and uncountable, plural gray rapes)

An unclear case of alleged rape, for instance when the victim cannot demonstrate nonconsent.


rapefic

rapefic (countable and uncountable, plural rapefics)

It wasn't the content matter of the story per se or the fact that it was a rapefic.

2000 January 23, Mia Munro, “Re: Scully Kink Series Presents: Please Pass the Fish - WARNING, Known”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

My lemon "A Wet Dream Come True" is NOT a rapefic. There is no such thing as an act of "rape" between Ranma and one of his fiancees.

2000 January 24, michaelrhea, “Re: Ranma Fanfiction Cliches (Draft)”, in alt.fan.r-takahashi (Usenet):

Moreover, "That Indescribable Something" remains a shining example of a rapefic that is in no way demeaning, offensive, irresponsible, pointless, gratuitous, or disrespectful of its victims, despite being far more brutal than many more poorly-written rapefics.

2001 May 9, pam, “Re: OT:The beginning of a story which grabbed you and dragged you into the story and that stays with you, even now, in your mind”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic in which rape is a core element, typically being graphically depicted.


rape card

Suggesting a playing card conferring an advantage in a game; compare race card, play the gender card.

She [Potiphar's wife] then played the rape card, and Joseph was thrown into prison. If I had been Joseph, I would be thinking, Hey, God, You gave me those dreams! Look at me now.

1998, Dwight Reighard, Pat Springle, Discovering Your North Star, page 345:

Furthermore, following the genocide, some women were questioned with the “rape card,” namely their fellow residents wondered if they had managed to spare their lives by sleeping with attackers, i.e., facilitating rape instead of immediate death (Sharlach, 2000).

2014, Lori Poloni-Staudinger, Candice D. Ortbals, Terrorism and Violent Conflict, page 21:

"Shut up Jodi..." Jillian began with a snarl. "Before I have rough sex with you again."
"Hey, rape is nothing to joke about."
"Um, yeah, when we're talking about an actual rape." Jillian scoffed. "You should be ashamed of yourself playing the rape card in your situation."

2014, Luke Young, Ian Dalton, Friends With Multiple Benefits:

(derogatory) A rape accusation made in bad faith.


hurtcore

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2015, "P Schmidt", Re: How new are you? This whole board is nothing but fucked up shit. Ponies, 100% legals, traps, drawings, hurtcore, rape, the list goes on, just click on a random thread here and you'll get your answer. (on newsgroup alt.politics.immigration)

'Have you […] heard the term hurtcore?'
'No.'
'It's rape porn. There's a whole movement of fans that pay a lot of money to watch. Unfortunately, lots of it involves children.'

(slang) Pornographic material, especially child pornography, that depicts actual rape and abuse.


consensual non-consent

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Consensual non-consent describes engaging in behaviors that may include role-playing nonconsensual behaviors, or may involve negotiating sexual behaviors where one partner agrees to give up consent during certain behaviors or relationships.

2021 February 2, David J. Ley Ph.D., “Consensual Non-Consent: Exploring Challenging Boundaries”, in Psychology Today (article), retrieved 2025-01-05:

(BDSM) A mutual agreement between partners to be able to act as if sexual consent has been waived; for example, rape roleplay.


rapemeat

(derogatory, offensive) A person who is used only to be raped.


buck breaking

buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)

One example of this destructive process came in the form of “buck breaking.” This practice involved the breaking of the most masculine, rebellious, and/or influential of the enslaved Black males.

2015, Mwalimu J. Shujaa, Kenya J. Shujaa, The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America:

Slaves were subject to a process called “buck breaking,” a method that was used by slave owners to strike fear in the observing slaves.

2018, Rashad McCants, Plantation Education:

As a means of breaking us psychologically, during slavery, white slave masters' implemented the “buck breaking” method.

2018, C. M. Fox, K. C. Dillon, Conversations of a Conscious Black Girl, page 16:

We are playing the devil's game without his infernal name in this good for nothing God forsaken buck breaking society.

(offensive) The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him.


child sexual abuse

More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.

2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times:

One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.

2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic:

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


child sex abuse

A 2020 study that examined three decades of research on sex education found that comprehensive sex ed that begins in elementary school can help prevent child sex abuse, among other benefits.

Online child sex abuse has increased by 27 per cent in just two years, as the NSPCC called for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content.

2022 April 15, Charles Hymas, “Online child sex abuse up by 27 per cent in two years”, in The Telegraph:

child sexual abuse
child sexual abuse#English

(crime) Alternative form of child sexual abuse.


SANE

(astrophysics) Ellipsis of SANE disc, a type of black hole accretion disc.


rape tree

A rape tree is what Mexican illegals create with the panties and bras of the women they have raped along the trail to America. After they have had their way with the women and young girls, they force them to hang their panties or bras, on the trees as a trophy or a sign of their conquest. […] [T]he Sonoran Desert encompasses 120,000 square miles in Arizona, California, and Mexico. That makes for a lot of rape trees that may never be discovered.

2010, Thomas R. Meinders, A Beautiful America:

Some claim that sexual assault leaves a material trace of evidence: the so-called rape tree—a bush or tree with women's undergarments hanging from the branches.

2016, Maria Theresia Starzmann, John R. Roby, Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting, page 211:

A tree or similar structure said to be used by smugglers near the U.S.–Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.


firewood rape

firewood rape (countable and uncountable, plural firewood rapes)

The most prevalent form of VAWG (as already stated) is IPV, not rape in public by a non-partner (which most firewood rapes are classed as) or conflict rape.

2021, Tamsin Bradley, Janet Gruber, Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls:

(Sudan) The rape of a woman by bandits as she forages for necessities outside of a Darfur refugee camp.


(Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.


en-verb

🍇 (third-person singular simple present 🍇s, present participle 🍇ing, simple past and past participle 🍇ed)

🍇s (present singular third-person)
🍇ing (participle present)
🍇ed (participle past)
🍇ed (past)


taharrush

Borrowed from Arabic تحرش (literally “harassment”).

bor+

The October Fest or Taharrush? Place, Crime, Ethnicity and Gender.

2018, Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting, Waqas Tufail, Media, Crime and Racism, page 78:

Soon, the girls were surrounded by a mob of thirty Muslim men and boys. The sexual harassment and rape then began, lasting more than two hours in a rape game known as "taharrush."

2022, Orlean Koehle, Islam Rising: Christianity Waning in Europe and the USA:

A system that, in the name of tolerance, turned a blind eye to taharrush gangs, the groups of young males that roamed some neighborhoods and targeted unaccompanied women.

2023, S. Kirk Pierzchala, Harshest Dawn: Beyond Cascadia: Four:

Sexual harassment
sexual harassment#English

Sexual harassment of women by men in Arab cultures.


V-code

en-verb

V-code (third-person singular simple present V-codes, present participle V-coding, simple past and past participle V-coded)

V-codes (present singular third-person)
V-coding (participle present)
V-coded (participle past)
V-coded (past)

(LGBTQ, transitive) To subject (someone) to V-coding.


V-coding

In a grotesque manipulation of power dynamics, sexual and carceral violence combine to produce V-coding: Prison staff “pacify” incarcerated men by putting a trans woman in a cell with them to “offer” sexual favors. But this kind of sex, usually unprotected, isn’t sex at all. It’s facilitated rape.
Studies and testimonies over the past decades define V-coding as “a central part of a trans woman’s sentence.” One survivor, Kim Love, described being forced to take a “husband.” Prison authorities frame this as violence prevention.

2024 February 29, Zain Murdock, “How ‘V-Coding’ Demonstrates The Violence Of Rape And Prison Culture”, in PushBlack, archived from the original on 2025-02-08:

(LGBTQ) The placement of incarcerated trans women in cells with aggressive cisgender male inmates as a form of reward or pacification for said male inmates.