Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180218220444/@comment-31722073-20181014125222

The rape that is being discussed here might not be considered bad form, while getting someone drunk so they have sex with you is rape but Hook probably didn’t think of it like that.

The pirate code stuff isn’t an acceptable defense because each ship has different codes and most of the ones we have don’t ban rape, one bans bringing a woman on the ship (which Hook broke) another bans gambling (he broke that one to).

The we didn’t see him do it is a weird defense, the show wasn’t showing rape and putting it in flashbacks wouldn’t really make sense. Also he definitely had prostitutes, we saw that in The Jolly Roger, his crew knew that he liked them, that’s why they sent one his way.

Yeah they clearly were writing that line and many others to imply that he was a typical pirate.