The subject of sexual transgression is mired in emotion in these United States.  We as a country have a degree of dementia in such regards.  What determines the seriousness of a transgression of any kind???  Some rational approach to determining severity of crimes is necessary in a rational society.  Emotional ranting does not count as rational.  How would one compare murder and rape.  Today, sentences for the two are often similar.  Rape, unlike murder, has various impacts on parties involved.  A person forcibly raped and given AIDS is very very seriously impacted.  A person out cold drunk who does not remember except by being told?  Perhaps the impact is less.  Many today would jump on the irrational emotional bandwidth and ignore any objective evaluation of transgressive impact and instead go with emotional outrage.  In other countries of the world there is more balance and wisdom.  The same US emotionalism seen re sexual transgressions dominates many areas of US civil interactions.