 Feminists are committed to ensuring that women’s and girls’ experiences of sexual violation are taken seriously as such, that the harm they suffer therein is recognized, and that those who inflict that harm are held accountable. Achieving these goals has often involved arguing that certain kinds of encounters that have previously not been socially or legally recognized as rape should be so recognized—thus, challenging overly restrictive ideas (often encoded in law) about what counts as rape (Burgess-Jackson 1996, 77-86; Sanday 1996, 161-183; Bevacqua 2000). Obvious examples include the abolition of marital-rape exemptions and the recognition of date and acquaintance rape. Feminists have also challenged the idea (derived from English common law) that, in order for an encounter to count as rape, the victim must have displayed “utmost” (or even any) physical resistance, as well as the assumption that rape must involve vaginal penetration by a penis (victims are raped orally, anally, and/or with fingers or objects).