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You can see where there's room for doubt in that though, surely. Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/08/2012 09:20:19 PM
Unless he got the woman's consent in advance to have sex with her while she was asleep if he woke up first and was feeling randy then it is rape. You do not just start performing sex acts on someone and assume it is fine because they haven't said no yet.

If this kind of thing happens in an established long-term relationship, I think we can all agree that, while many people may still find it a dubious thing to do, calling it rape is absurd.

Of course this was not a long-term relationship, or even a relationship at all, just a one night stand. But that one night stand having happened does create a certain grey area - it makes some things natural enough that would've been creepy or downright sexual harassment if he'd done them to someone he had no sexual relationship of any kind with. I think just about every sane person would agree that actually having sex with her while she was asleep goes far beyond the level of increased familiarity which their prior consensual sex made justifiable - but it's hard to draw clear lines in that.
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