Is there a difference between “Non-con” and “Rape”?
If you read a lot of “non-con” romance, you will inevitably run across angry reviews making some version of the argument, “rape is rape.” I associate the phrase “rape is rape” with the efforts to raise consciousness of date rape during the late 1980s and ‘90s. For people born before the sexual revolution, "rape" was something that involved a stranger with a gun in a poorly lit parking garage. Especially after the taboos against premarital sex were lifted, it became clear that