I didn’t have to work very hard at all to create a link between Peter Parker, Doc Ock and rape. A character had sex in another character’s body.  He used the body for his own personal pleasure against the other person’s wishes and ability to consent.

I don’t know what else you could call it. That is literally the legal definition of rape.

I am not against Marvel using a story like this or having mind control/body transference as a plot device, but it is what it is. I notice you didn’t actually express if I was incorrect or not- only that you thought i was somehow laboring to make the connection. Or that you thought I pulled unrelated tangents to make that particular connection, which I didn’t.

I guarantee you even on the limited time I’ve spent studying law I could make a great case as to how this would fit virtually every definition of sexual assault in some form or another. You want to make this a public debate I will gladly submit my real name and information to any sexual assault counseling service you pick and we’ll see if they would indulge and tell us whether or not this case and the particulars of it would be considered sexual assault. 

Ugh, it wasn’t sexual assault, or rape, or anything other marginally illegal. Unethical? Maybe, but that’s why there’s ethics and there’s law. 

Here’s the deal, for Mr(s). Smarty-Pants up there. Doctor Octopus swapped minds with Peter’s body. That’s probably illegal, or would be if it was a real thing. Doctor Octopus, in Peter’s body, fell in love with Anna Macaroni. Legal. The two consented to do some off-panel stuff (like sex or playing chess, we never saw it). Legal. But the fact would be that it was Otto’s mind that fell in love with Anna’s, and with her being a little person, it made it all the more sweeter – it really showcased love opposed to lust. They were together because of love, not looks. Let’s put it this way, pretend Otto was a cyborg instead of taking Peter’s body. Would it have been rape, or sexual assault? Can an Android fall in love with a human (ex-mutants have been established)? In this world of science-fiction of course they can. 

The only person who has been unethically harmed (and probably illegally) would have been Parker, for having his body violated. He was the only one of the three who did not consent to the act, or put more sweetly and in the context of the story, fell in love. 

The poster above is totally wrong and is one of the worst type of people. To them everything goes against their cause. As I mentioned before Peter was violated as he DID NOT CONSENT. Otto and Anna did. And if Otto had his original body and they fell in love I don’t think it wouldn’t have lead to them having sex (or coffee, whatever). When I read the response above, I feel like I’m reading a rant from a feminist scrounging the waste bin for scraps to argue against. They give a meaningful cause a bad name by over-exaggerating irrelevant claims of ignorance and trying to justify it…with the law (love how that was dropped in!). Same stuff with Falcon “raping an underaged girl” – just to get someone with a cause over, even though she was wrong. That person never went back and removed her article, instead appending it, used the momentum, and tried to use her ignorance with the #FireRemender campaign to further her cause. I’m technically a millennial, but people of my age bracket who think this way give us all a bad name.

Here’s the long and short of it. Two people fell in love and had sex. It was consensual. If you wanted to take any stance, Peter Parker was sexually assaulted since his body was used for the act. Not Anna. If anything Otto sexually assaulted Peter. To the original poster I quoted, would that change your stance on things? Would you give a shit then? I’d wager not.