People v. Evans

The question presented in this case is whether the sexual conquest by a predatory male of a resisting female constitutes rape or seduction.

In making the distinction, we must deal with patterns of behavior which have been exhibited by aggressive males towards gentle or timid or submissive females, the broad outlines of which have been similar for hundreds or maybe thousands of years, but the particulars of which vary markedly in individual cases.

It is a fact, I suppose, that since before the dawn of history men with clubs have grabbed women, willing or unwilling, by *1090the hair, to have their way…