In Athens seduction was worse than rape

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[–]fschmidt[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thus, gentlemen, rapists are thought to deserve a lighter penalty than seducers, because the law condemned the latter to death, but assigned double the amount of the damages to the former. The assumption is that those who achieve their aims by force are hated by those they have violated, while seducers so corrupt the souls of their victims that they make other men’s wives more intimate with them than they are with their husbands. They make the whole house theirs, and it becomes unclear to which father the children belong, the husband or the seducer. Because of this the lawmaker assigned death as the penalty for seducers.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You see with Epstein's victims that people try to make out it wasn't that bad because they went back but that is actually evidence of another crime, that their minds were corrupted to such an extent they could no longer chose a path that was good for them. This of course then leaves them open to being abused and manipulated again and again throughout their lives, which suits some people.

[–]Cornfed 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you talking about the teenaged whores Epstein hired? If so, is it your position they didn't realise that men wanted to have sex with them and they would otherwise have been married faithful wives just like essentially no-one else?