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Just throwing this out there. But think of all the times he gave her rum and she didn't kiss him.

This thread has become so frustrating because some people, not just Edt, seem to take the stance that it was rape like or compare it to date rape and refuse to look at the facts of the situations.

The problem I have is when you compare it to rape, you trivialize what rape truly is. If you call rape when there is none, who's to believe you when there is? It's the little boy who called wolf. And it's insulting to women to assume that they can't control their signals. And, dare I say, insulting to the majority of men who don't rape women?

The other problem I have is that these people are ignoring the obvious intent of the writers. They are trying to force a real problem onto a fictional situation that was obviously written to develop the relationship of two characters falling in love.

Emma and Hook are one of the great love stories on this show, if not the best. And to compare it to rape is insulting to men, women, and the writers.