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One question for you.

In your country, if you pick up a one night stand in a bar and in the morning they steal your wallet, can you get them charged with rape? Legally?

Because you can't in my country. In all the legal definitions I have found it mentions not consenting or being unable to consent (drunk, minor etc). Ulterior motives don't seem to be enough to legally charge someone who had consensual sex with rape. Is it different in your country?


I'm asking this because it already has a warning for "sex under false pretense", which is exactly what happens...

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Rape isn’t just defined as a sexually violent act. 

I didn’t come here in the interest of discussing what constitutes rape or a victim (which has little to do with any given country’s laws anyway), but since your question is easy to answer, here are the results of a cursory google search: 

Rape by deception, also known as rape by fraud, is a crime that occurs when someone deceives a victim into having sex by making false claims. The victim would not have consented to the sexual act if they had not been deceived. Rape by deception is recognised in the laws of many jurisdictions, including the UK and the US. 

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This would not classify as rape by deception. 

Cackling at being downvoted because somebody googled, meanwhile I’m literally an attorney.