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"But I have read the High Court ruling, in particular the following section which is from one of Assange’s accusers, a women identified only as AA: “Mr Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina, but she did not want him to do that as he was not using a condom. She therefore squeezed her legs together in order to avoid him penetrating her. She tried to reach several times for a condom which Mr Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without a condom”."

That sure sounds like forcible (illegitimate) rape to me! Even if a woman consents to sex with a condom -- that does not amount to consent for sex without a condom. It's the difference between consenting to skydiving with a parachute & being shoved out a plane without a chute.

Forcible rape is "legitimate" rape, not "illegitimate" rape. The point Akin was trying to make about legitimacy -- now lost in the shuffle -- is there would be illegitimate claims of rape used to justify abortions if rape is allowed as an exemption.

As for the analogy, well, it's pretty much a given that jumping out of a plane without a parachute will inevitably have negative consequences. That's not really true of sex without a condom... But yes, if true, this would be a criminal case even if -- as teflon9 maintains -- that this was a "honey trap." He could be found not guilty of a rape because of entrapment, but still guilty of assault because of the terms of the sexual act.