Is blackmailing for sex, rape?

Question

A friend of mine (seriously not me) is using a sex tape he secretly filmed against a married woman. He's threatening to send the tape to her husband if she doesn't comply to his demands (basically sex). She gave him the cold shoulder because she wants to be faithfull to her husband again and this upset him. I've advice him to get rid of the tape but he's already put his plan to work for about two months now. Can he get in trouble for what he's doing?

Thanks all, i will try to talk to this girl and beg her to admit her doings to her husband before he finds out from the tape. I don't want my friend to go to jail...

Answer 1

Well bad things will start to happen to him from now on.. Threw bad Carma threw many things.. Bad people have bad things happen to them and you will see that the bad things that happen to him will not be solely threw him bad bad things will happen to those he loves the most.. Advice him to leave his bad omens behind and renew his thoughts and made amend with himself... You can be the good person in this and make him see his wrong doing, how can you be friend with someone of such evil thoughts. At one point you will question this yourself.

Answer 2

In Canada definitely. In the US it s hard to tell. The offense of blackmail is created by 18 U.S.C. § 873 which provides: "Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."[32] But commonly the term blackmail could be having embarassing pictures of someone and demanding sex or the pictures will be published. From an S&M perspective the idea is kinda hot. It s easy to imagine a scenario where one party voluntarily gives another information that if published would be costly to the other. This shares something of the spirit in which some couples get each other s names tattooed on each other. Couples attempting to bind each other together on the basis of embarassing information blackmail might theorize that this dirt represents a little real power being exchanged. But if it s coercion to blackmail someone for sex, and coercion of this kind creates the crime of Sexual Assault, or even rape, then no power was actually exchanged killing the thrill. This would seem to be the case in Canada according to wikipedias entry on Sexual Assault, but I can t determine from that if it would be in the US. Maybe it depends on the state? IMO, blackmail should be legal if it doesn t involve invasion of privacy or someone breaking a law and having evidence used as blackmail material. Also coercion other than coercion by employers and physical threats and drugs should be legally allowed to use in order to get someone to have sex. Other specific forms and cases of coercion should be outlawed if they become widely problematic, but otherwise allowed.

Answer 3

F_ck that. I'd tell on myself and then be like, "Now what are you going to do, a$$hole?" And then if I were her I'd call the police. He obviously likes the power in this situation and if she takes it from him who knows how he will react? It's psychos like this that kill people when they are rejected. Yes, he can get in trouble and yes, it's rape. I hope this nasty pig gets his cheap little power thrills while he can before he goes to jail and Bubba shows him who really has the power. He is enjoying having this power over her and he likes it that a woman is sleeping with him out of fear. That is not a good situation at all. Maybe YOU should tell on him. Friend or not, there is just some sh!t that you can't let go on. If you know about it and you don't help her, you are just as bad. If you saw a woman getting raped in the street, would you just walk by? Of course not. This is the same kind of thing.
LEGAL DEFINITION OF RAPE: RAPE - The carnal knowledge of a woman by a man (or vice versa) forcibly and unlawfully against her will. In order to ascertain precisely the nature of this offence, this definition will be analysed. The knowledge of the woman's person must be forcibly and against her will; and if her consent has not been voluntarily and freely given, (when she has the power to consent,) the offence will be complete, nor will any subsequent acquiescence on her part do away the guilt of the ravisher. A consent obtained from a woman by actual violence, by duress or threats of murder, or by the administration of stupefying drugs, is not such a consent as will shield the offender, nor turn his crime into adultery or fornication.
**I'd call blackmail "duress", wouldn't you?

Answer 4

I am pretty sure she could get him at least for harassment and also blackmail too possibly. She should go to the police and ask them. She could say that it was when they were seperated but still doesn't want the relationship to be jeopardized because they are reconciled. Some part of the whole thing is definitely illegal. She should also consider getting a restraining order on him as well. I am curious how he secretly could have videotaped her having sex with someone too...could he be lieing? Good luck and I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Not only is this potentially rape, but if he has a tape of her having sex with someone else he can be charged with privacy invasion as well, especially if he;s using it to coerce her into sex. He might look a little better if that tape somewhow found its way to her husband, becasue it doesn't sound liek she was forced to do whatever is on the tape.

Answer 6

For blackmail he can get into trouble, but not for rape because this isn't rape. She had a choice, but out of fear of her husband finding out she chose to have sex with this man.

Either way, the only way this is going to stop is if she fesses up to the police and her husband and even after that, nothing may be done at all.

Answer 7

First of all, she should have remained faithful to her husband. It is crazy to have affairs not only because of what you are doing to your marriage but because you don't really know who it is that you are going to be having the affair with. Did she know this man? Seriously, she wants to be faithful to her husband again?!?! Get real, she cheated once, what is stopping her from doing it again? I think that this other man should send the tape to her husband...to show him what his sleazy, can't follow her vows, can't remain faithful wife was doing. If anything this is what she deserves. And no it isn't rape, she refused to have sex with him again. All it is, is blackmail. Sure she can get the police involved but not sure what they would or could do.

Answer 8

Yes, he can get in trouble for the blackmail and yes, I would think that is rape....Is he that hard up he can't find a single woman? Though he sounds like a creep and I wouldn't want anyone I know to date him anyway.......
Hope she sicks some really big men on him to beat the poop out of him....At least I would call the cops on him also....

Answer 9

If he blackmails her into having sex, this is rape. Any one who abuses a position of power for sex can get in trouble (that's why bosses get in trouble for sleeping with employees, they have power over the employee). Yes he can get in lots of trouble not only for going through with this, but for even TRYING to do this. She could probably get him charged with something already (attempted rape or whatever).

Why would you want to be friends with a psycho like that?

Answer 10

What he is doing now is extortion and that is illegal.
If sex took place it would be questionable as to whether it was legally rape because she would have to consent to the act - the tape is not a gun or a knife.