Kevin's Watch

Nerdanel wrote: I also have a truly radical theory about Esmer in the works...

Demondim in dusguise?

finn wrote:I think you'll find that a man can rape a woman but a woman cannot rape a man. The legalities are I believe, tied up in the act itself, if a man is capable and aroused for the act, it is deemed that he is an 'active' party and in effect consenting.

Aroused? That's pretty hard to define. Erection doesn't automatically equal arousal. A good case in point is men who are raped by other men and then think that they are gay, or that it wasn't rape and that they enjoyed it, because they got an erection during the violation. However, the erection is caused by the stimulation of the thousands of nerve endings in the groin region, not by any real sense of enjoyment.

That being said, I would say that cases of women raping men are very rare.

Not to derail this any further, but I gotta agree with Variol Son here. In fact, in SA, the law makes provision for the rape of men by women. There's actually been a recent court-case on this very subject.

(And let's not forget, all other things aside, that there is a now common and easily available pharmaceutical that can...command...a males response.)

Now back to the scheduled topic.

--A

There was a great episode of Picket Fences about a man getting raped by a woman. As vs says, erection doesn't always equal arousal.

Nooooo!

Back on topic...



--A

I agree, let's put this thread back on topic please.

I don't know if I will ever post that particular theory about Esmer (mainly because there is one small piece of evidence that seems to kill it for good beyond the scope of sensible rationalizations) but the theory was not a Demondim in disguise. It was something altogether more radical and a thing nobody even once suspected the Mahdoubt would be, seriously or not (and a theory which incidentally involved a woman sort of raping a man ). I'll continue looking into Esmer however.

I have noticed another thing about Anele. According to the First Chronicles naming rules, Anele would have been female, Anele Nele-daughter.

That's rather... anile. Poor guy. I wonder if he's going to learn that factoid later in the series as there are timetravellers/the Dead/Lord Foul/the Ravers at least who could tell him.