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Hmcooper4 wrote: Storybrooke's "Justice" system is a topic for a different thread. (Let's face it, how much justice can there be when King George is the DA. But I Digress).

What Regina did to Graham (in the EF) was clearly Rape, as he had no consent in the matter, but was coerced, nor was it even disguised. what Hook did with many a bar wench falls under the category of date rape, though to be fair, the behavior was expected in the culture depicted, and the we don't know what level of consent there might have been (I'm not condoning the activity, i'm just commenting).

What Zelena did to Robin is in a much grayer area. Was it wrong? Absolutely, and on multiple levels. But was it rape? That is not as easy of a question to answer. Particularly considering that Zelena's goal was not sexual relations with Robin (that really was just a byproduct), but pretending to be his wife as a way to emotionally attack Regina. Now, the phone conversation between Regina and Zelena left a lot of implication that Zelena was enjoying that aspect of the marriage, but who knows the truth of that. I prefer, in this case, just to think of it as Zelena acted immorally (and on a large scale) and leave it at that. Let's take a more realistic approach with two other characters. If James pretended to be David and slept with Snow, would it be rape?

In order for it to not be rape there need to be consent. Robin never consented to sleep with Zelena, he never consented to sleep with Zelena disguised as Marian. The fact that Zelena didn't literally forced herself on Robin is not enough for it to not be rape. A drunk or drugged person probably would let the rapist do whatever, it would still be considered rape. The same applies here, Robin thought he was sleeping with his wife, turned out he didn't. Someone sexually and emotionally abused him, that's rape.