What is rape?

[charmbrights]

In writing the "Delights" series of harem based novels (to be posted here soon - I hope, if the bosses sees fit) I am faced with the dilemma of what counts as rape.  A junior concubine in a man's harem, literally his property with no rights except what he allows, gives birth to a female child.  That girl child is raised entirely in the harem and has never seen a man who is not a eunuch, and is a beautiful 18 year old virgin when she is given/sold to another man and goes into his harem.  Naturally with a gorgeous, well developed virgin available he takes her to his bed and fucks her every which way.

Is that rape?

[death2Uall]

Depends entirely on the culture you're discussing. For example, in the antebellum American south, the crime of "rape" did not apply to black slaves. In much of the ancient world (especially Greece and Rome) rape was a crime against the victim's guardian (father, husband, brother), not against the woman. And a man assaulting his own wife wasn't considered a crime at all over most of the world until about the mid '70s.

In the Arab/middle-east culture you seem to be describing, what you're talking about would probably not be considered rape in a legal sense, except among the whiners of Amnesty International and similar organizations.

Of course, that has absolutely nothing to do with how the girl in question will react to it ...

[Violet]

I agree with death.  It probably wouldn't be seen as rape legally, but it would definitely still be rape.  Especially if her new Master is a sadist and really makes her suffer - and she would have no one to run to, because legally, she's his property.

Perfect crime...