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Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 58 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Love the wording for the charges, "causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent".

That's an awful lot of words for rape.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The wording covers men and women. In the US rape is usually defined as vaginal penetration. Sex acts is usually defined as everything but vaginal.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    ...it's from a odd technicality where on ol' blighty, a male can't be "raped" because of how the laws are written. Call it a peculiarity of their system or sexism, but it results in oddly sounding charges like what you see reported at least.

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