Protesters denounce blockage of EU legislation defining rape as sex without consent

I understand what you're trying to say, but the counter argument is that rape could occur through coercion or deception.

There's the violence of "a wrong committed against a person's body", and there's violence in the sense of "a direct application of physical force".
I think everyone here is in agreement that the second sense should not be considered a prerequisite for the first.

I think the problem is this is "legally defining"

So a hot take just wouldn't hold up in court. This is about pushing it further than just a hot take.

Yeah. That’s the only attitude that makes the French legal definition of rape barely tolerable.

France, for instance, considers that rape can be considered to have occurred when “an act of sexual penetration or an oral-genital act is committed on a person, with violence, coercion, threat or surprise.”

Far from ideal, but it leaves enough room for interpretation that a decent judge can work with it. Unfortunately, that same leeway can also allow a shitty judge to let scumbags off easy.

So because France considers their definition to be the same or better, they block it from becoming the definition for the whole bloc where other countries have looser definitions. Make no sense and makes them the bad guy here holding off the progress.

This is just France being France. They are the obstinate teenager of the EU. It doesn't need any logic, they just need to be both correct and different.

Robbery does require violence though.