Originally Posted by Neapolitan

In Roman law "raptus" meant abducting or kidnapping someone, and "stuprum" was the "sex crime." Both "raptus" and "raptor" come from Latin word meaning seized by force.

The Bible covers almost ever kind sexual act, I'm not sure why some think that rape is not included. Some Jewish scholars believed that Isaac was either raped or sexually abused by Ismael.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.