re: Is "legitimate rape" placed in quotes and considered offensive because women

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Since innocent men have been accused of rape and the facts later showed it wasn't rape, the term, "illegitimate rape" is used to refer to those examples where a man is accused of raping a woman but the facts prove he didn't rape her.

The term, "legitimate rape" refers to those examples where a man is accused of raping a woman and the facts prove he did rape her.

Using the term, "illegitimate rape" is just another way of saying the woman wasn't raped.

Likewise, using the term, "legitimate rape" is just another way of saying the woman was raped.

No one should get offended by the use of these two terms and everyone should understand why these two terms are now being used.

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“I’ve taught police officers, and worked with police officers on every continent in the world, and that’s something I’ve never heard in my 50 years in law enforcement,” says Dr. James A. Williams, former Chief of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces for the U.S Department of Justice, who also worked in municipal law enforcement in New Jersey. “I’ve never heard of that. Never.”

Richard Lichten, a veteran of the LA County Sheriff’s Department and expert on sexual assault investigations agrees:

“I have 30 years of experience, I’m qualified to testify in federal court on the way to investigate sexual assault crimes, and I’ve never heard of that,” said Lichten. “In all my life I’ve never heard of that.”

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