I can't help feeling that the original tweets and the comments on this thread have both been on a level of angels dancing on a pinhead - and equally pointless. It is perfectly obvious that rape by someone known to the victim will always be an act of assault and is often a very violent act of assault. Whether this is more traumatic than rape by a stranger depends on many individual factors, but, fortunately, most people raped once will not have experienced any other kind of rape so will be unable to compare.
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