The three of them had met up for coffee one lunch time. They chattered away, basically discussing inconsequential things, until Debbie raised a subject that they could all identify with.
"Tell me, is it rape if you're reluctant to have sex and the man insists?"
Susan sniggered. "If it is, every husband and boyfriend would be in prison," she said. "Who hasn't been pressured into a bit of slap and tickle when they're not in the mood?"
"That's not what I mean," protested Debbie. "I mean having to have sex with someone you wouldn't normally have sex with and probably wouldn't ever want to have sex with but they sort of pin you in a corner and you have to agree."
Susan sniggered again. "I suspect that has happened to most women at some time or another. I know I've been in that situation. I assume something like that happened to you?"
"Sort of. How about you, Melanie?"
"I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about," said Melanie with an innocent expression.
"Really?" said Susan. "What about when you. . ."
"Yes, well I suppose I might have experienced something like that," Melanie put in quickly. "However, that wasn't what Debbie asked. She wanted to know if it was classified as rape."
"It all depends on whether you agree, however reluctant your agreement. Mind you, agreeing under threat of physical violence isn't really agreeing, so that would still be rape. Why don't you tell us what happened," said Susan.
"In salacious detail," added Melanie.
"You're kidding, right?"
"Wrong. We're curious. Who jumped you and how did he persuade you? What was it like? Are you seeing him again? Tell all."
Debbie adamantly shook her head.
"Tell you what," said Melanie. "You tell us what happened to you and we'll both tell you what happened to us. We can then vote on whether it was rape or not in each case."
Debbie's Story
I am in the unfortunate position of having a few points on my driver's license. Truth is, if my father knew how many points I have he'd go spare, but so far I've managed to hide them from him. The points don't particularly bother me as I got most of them ages ago and in another couple of months most of them will have dropped off, leaving me with basically a clean license.
Unless, of course, I get more points between now and when they start dropping off and therein lay the crux of my problem. I like to drive fast at times, but I'm always careful when I do it. On Saturday I was up in the country and there was this long straight road. There wasn't anyone around, and I mean no-one. No cars, no bikes, no trucks, no people, nothing. Just me and this long straight road. So I might have put my foot down a little bit harder than I should have. Just a little.
Anyway, I was halfway down the road when a siren goes off and there's this cop on a motorbike behind me, indicating I should pull over. I did so and once I was pulled over I hopped out of the car. I was wearing these tight little shorts and a crop top, and I was looking pretty good. I thought I could charm him out of a ticket with no problems.
He gets off his bike and comes strolling over to me. I'll tell you what - with his helmet and boots and leathers he looked huge. He also looked fairly old, forty at least, and there was I, twenty, and winsome, and cute, smiling like I'm happy to see him. No way was he going to give me a ticket.
"Can I see your license, please," he goes and I handed it over.
He looked at it and then looked at me and then asked if I knew why he'd pulled me over. I almost told him that if he didn't know, why should I, but I figured he probably wouldn't be amused.
"Um, was I going a little fast?" I asked, sounding meek and apologetic.
"If you call fifty over the limit a little fast then yes, you were going a little fast."
"Fifty over? You've got to be kidding," I gasped. "Five or ten at the most. No more than that."
"Fifty, and you're not very observant. I picked you up at the start of this stretch and your speed was constant all the way."