The word “rape” is derived from the Latin rapere, meaning “to seize by force,” and until well into the early modern period, it referred to the kidnapping of a woman with or without a sexual element, but with violence. Physical violence was also the connotation of equivalent terms in other European languages until the 20th century (e.g. French rapt, after 1791 viol; Spanish violación, from Latin violentia, “violence”; German Vergewaltigung, from Gewalt, “violence”) [12]. …