In Pennsylvania, rape is a specific sex offense. It differs from sexual assault, indecent assault, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
Under Pennsylvania’s rape law, you can be charged with a first-degree felony if you engage in sexual intercourse with a victim:
By force.
By threat of force, which would prevent resistance by a reasonable person.
Who is unconscious, or when you know that the victim is unaware that sexual intercourse is occurring.
When you have substantially impaired the victim’s power to appraise or control their conduct by administering or employing, without the victim’s knowledge, drugs, intoxicants, or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance.
Who suffers from a mental disability, which renders the victim incapable of consent.