[Kumagoro]

Originally Posted by her_beautiful_mistake

Are they? Persuading you to partake in a certain action.

You can say no and remove yourself from the situation in both cases. If you stay in the situation and then get persuaded, actually okay yes I will have sex, you can't then go and call rape! That's absurd.You said yes, therefore the guy will assume (quite rightly) that you want to have sex.

But if you said no many times before that, the guy would know he's taking advantage. As far as I'm concerned, that is by no means "quite rightly assuming you want to have sex".

If someone's persuaded to have sex, they might give in because they're scared, because they feel helpless, because they feel that resisting would get them hurt. If the person responsible for the persuasion is aware that the other person is uncomfortable, then persisting in the behaviour until the other person gives in is wrong and, as Emma pointed out, classifies as rape.

Unless you're held at gunpoint, being persuaded to buy a car is unlikely to present any such fear.