Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26855145-20150804175825/@comment-24950802-20150826022520

Look, to describe any of the situations listed above as "rape" is always gonna be a bit of a stretch because they always relate to magical stuff somehow, and since there's no magic in our world, it's hard to make those situations analogous to our notion of rape. That being said, I don't necessarily agree with your point (@Reginaandgold101, not gonna quote cos too long) that because Graham and David and Kathryn were cursed, whenever they had sex they weren't exactly raped, cos it was consensual. You could say that, but you could also say that, because none of the characters had any say in the matter, they've all been violated to an extent. Take Ruby for example. We don't know much about Red's love life in the past, but imagine that she was a virgin when the curse hit, that she'd never had sex with Peter. We know Ruby was a bit of a slut when the curse hit, so, imagine that, for 28 years, Ruby had sex with indiscriminate men because that was the nature of her persona. She comes to after the curse is broken and realizes that her virginity has been taken. The curse is sorta like a drug that affected her behavior and led her to do it. Therefore, Ruby was violated. This is just a hypothetical scenario, but do you see what I mean?