[@Dinh AaronMk] Your quote on the Dutch law is correct but interpreted wrongly. [quote]Volgens de wet is verkrachting iemand dwingen tot het ondergaan van handelingen die (mede) bestaan uit het seksueel binnendringen van het lichaam door middel van (bedreiging met) geweld of door middel van (bedreiging met) een andere feitelijkheid. Kortom: er moet sprake zijn van dwang, door (bedreiging met) geweld of een andere feitelijkheid. Die dwang moet tot seksuele handelingen leiden waarbij het lichaam wordt binnengedrongen. Is dat het geval, dan is een veroordeling voor verkrachting mogelijk.[/quote] '.. through (threat of) violence and/or through (threat of) another factuality..' This other factuality can be [i]anything.[/i] It can be drugs, it can be alcohol, it can be a large number of things depending on what the judge makes of it. There has to be 'force' not in the sense of violence but 'force' in the sense of incapacity to decline. So yes, actually, it does get reported. But the English translation doesn't translate as well. Mostly because you removed the brackets. So in fact the laws in the US and NL are, pretty much, equal. Marital rape was included in 1991 actually and it was[i] only[/i] in 1991 that we also made it legally possible for a man to get raped. Groping isn't considered rape here but rather 'sexual assault' or 'aanranding' as we call it. It's a different class and basically relates to sexual acts that do not include penetration. In any case, since the laws are pretty much equal, I wonder what's wrong in the US so much that we have 2 entirely different situations. Probably not relating to the legal system then, but rather, the education of children when it comes to what is acceptable and what isn't. I've also learned that many American schools don't offer sexual education. Maybe that's a start.