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Originally, rape had no sexual connotation and is still used in other contexts in English. It has varied historically and culturally. The definition of rape is inconsistent between governmental health organizations, law enforcement, health providers, and legal professions. Rape is defined in most jurisdictions as sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, committed by a perpetrator against a victim without their consent. The original meaning of "carry off by force" is still found in some phrases, such as "rape and pillage", or in titles, such as the stories of the Rape of the Sabine Women and The Rape of Europa or the poem The Rape of the Lock, which is about the theft of a lock of hair. In Medieval English law the same term could refer to either kidnapping or rape in the modern sense of "sexual violation". In Roman law, the carrying off of a woman by force, with or without intercourse, constituted "raptus".
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The term rape originates from the Latin rapere (supine stem raptum), "to snatch, to grab, to carry off".
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The term rape is sometimes used interchangeably with the term sexual assault. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent. Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.