Sexual Assault Prevention A guide for men and women of West Chester University Rape is a criminal act using verbal coercion and physical strength to force sex without consent. According to Pennsylvania law a person is unable to give consent if he or she is intoxicated or otherwise mentally impaired. FBI statistics indicate that one out of three women and one out of ten men will be sexually assaulted during their lifetime. Although men can be victims, date rape or acquaintance rape is generally a sexual assault against a woman committed by a man she knows.
Seduction differs from rape.
Seduction occurs when people behave in mutually acceptable ways to entice each other into sexual touching. Rape often occurs when seduction fails and in the majority of cases, a man forces a woman to have sex without her consent. In the state of Pennsylvania, rape is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years' imprisonment. This law applies to vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Sexual assault is a crime of varying degrees.