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Coercion
LeCastor wrote:
Because if you are forced to sleep with your teacher for a good grade, that's not rape. You consented to the act itself.
As a male teacher, I call that rape.
Not only that, there is the inherent assumption that a superior officer is giving the female soldier an option. That is contrary to the very structure of military command. Officers have the choice of obeying an order or resigning their commission. But enlisted soldiers have no option. That is why the UCMJ defines such situations as rape by statute.
So, I am forced to say, you totally blew that call.