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It isn't so much rape as it is forced procreation. He is in to it except for the last possible second. There are a lot of tropes in the "romance" genre that address scenes like this in reverse. Specifically, there are alpha heroes that steal birth control pills or otherwise instigate pregnancies, and people will 5 star the book. Why? Because what people accept in fiction is not always what they would accept in real life. Just look at Fifty Shades. I could name a dozen books with a dark trope that are a 5-star bestseller. This book is older, published in 2000, which predates the #MeToo movement. I think time period and reception at the time should also be factors taken into consideration. The author addresses it in the book and the Hero is fine with the event after the fact and it is used as a catalyst to remove barriers he had erected at a young age. Does any of this make it ok? By real life standards no. In fiction, I took no issue with it.
KD
There is no rape. Daphne seduces her drunk husband who is a very willing participant. But he typically pulls out at the end to avoid pregnancy and she takes advantage of his drunken state to prevent him from doing this.
Aishwarya
Well you can form your own opinion as to whether the scene is rape or not. One of the characters waits until their partner comes home so drunk that they're barely conscious and then proceeds to have sex with them in hopes of getting a child. The other participant- the really drunk one does NOT want children. The inebriated one, even though they were drunk and barely conscious, told the other to stop and the other didn't. Is this rape?? You decide
Maria Rose
You can't read books written before the #MeToo era and expect them to be PC in the descriptions of interactions between men and women, plus you are also demanding that the time setting (the 1800s) be using 2021 standards when it wasn't that way. You can't erase the past but you can change the unwritten future. I am sure that this author has done some changes in newer books to accomodate.
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