That's how I see it too. The girl in the prank thought she was consenting to happy fluffy romantic sex. She did not consent to being part of a prank.
However, we don't have a word for "being drawn into a prank without prior consent" or "being dragged into a Scientology meeting when I thought you were taking me to dinner" that is as strong as rape it. It's deception, it's false advertising.
It's kinda like the girl who sleeps with a guy in good faith and then suddenly finds herself the star of an internet sex tape. She can sue him because she didn't consent to having her image taken and spread. But I'm not sure if it would be considered rape, whatever else the legal term for non-consensual pornography is.
It might also be comparable to somebody getting sex with false pretenses. Like, he pretend to be a millionaire, she sleeps with him and later finds out that he was just faking it to get her into bed. If she hadn't thought he was rich, she wouldn't have slept with him. He was intentionally deceiving her. It is definitely deception, but is it rape? He mislead her judgement, but he didn't do anything to directly impair her judgement which she could have used to figure out he wasn't really rich. Same for the guy who pretends to be nice. If she had known he was a huge dick who makes a prank with his friends she wouldn't have slept with him naturally.
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However, we don't have a word for "being drawn into a prank without prior consent" or "being dragged into a Scientology meeting when I thought you were taking me to dinner" that is as strong as rape it. It's deception, it's false advertising.
It's kinda like the girl who sleeps with a guy in good faith and then suddenly finds herself the star of an internet sex tape. She can sue him because she didn't consent to having her image taken and spread. But I'm not sure if it would be considered rape, whatever else the legal term for non-consensual pornography is.
It might also be comparable to somebody getting sex with false pretenses. Like, he pretend to be a millionaire, she sleeps with him and later finds out that he was just faking it to get her into bed. If she hadn't thought he was rich, she wouldn't have slept with him. He was intentionally deceiving her. It is definitely deception, but is it rape? He mislead her judgement, but he didn't do anything to directly impair her judgement which she could have used to figure out he wasn't really rich. Same for the guy who pretends to be nice. If she had known he was a huge dick who makes a prank with his friends she wouldn't have slept with him naturally.