Is this rape?

I was watching Law and Order SVU and I came across an interesting scenario; by the end of it comment your opinion on whether or not you would classify this as rape.

In the story, a student is applying to colleges. His mother decides to seduce the head of admissions at one of the prestigious universities her son has applied to ( for a bit of background she is also married ) in the hopes of persuading the head of admissions to accept her son.

The 'head of admissions' at this school is, however, an imposter who actually works as a security guard at the University, he conned the mother into thinking he was the head of admissions so that she would be more inclined to sleep with him as he knows some parents might just go down such a route to cheat the system of merit-based acceptance.

After the sexual encounter at a hotel, the woman texts the man and says 'best sex ever', later, she uncovers the truth and accuses the man by texting him, 'you raped me, I hope you burn in hell.'

Now, my immediate reaction is that whilst this is a disgusting thing to do, is not rape. He's a pickup artist who lies and deceives women in order for them to sleep with him.

The episode is largely on the side of the argument that she did not consent to the real person but instead consented to someone else, so it is classified as rape.

What are your views?

I was watching Law and Order SVU and I came across an interesting scenario; by the end of it comment your opinion on whether or not you would classify this as rape.

In the story, a student is applying to colleges. His mother decides to seduce the head of admissions at one of the prestigious universities her son has applied to ( for a bit of background she is also married ) in the hopes of persuading the head of admissions to accept her son.

The 'head of admissions' at this school is, however, an imposter who actually works as a security guard at the University, he conned the mother into thinking he was the head of admissions so that she would be more inclined to sleep with him as he knows some parents might just go down such a route to cheat the system of merit-based acceptance.

After the sexual encounter at a hotel, the woman texts the man and says 'best sex ever', later, she uncovers the truth and accuses the man by texting him, 'you raped me, I hope you burn in hell.'

Now, my immediate reaction is that whilst this is a disgusting thing to do, is not rape. He's a pickup artist who lies and deceives women in order for them to sleep with him.

The episode is largely on the side of the argument that she did not consent to the real person but instead consented to someone else, so it is classified as rape.

What are your views?

Were this to be classified as rape, every sexual encounter conducted via Tinder could probably be similarly construed.

Or here's an interesting idea: a woman pretends to be a man to have sex with a woman, then when caught and brought to justice, claims that she is transgender and really is a man.

Is that a bad holiday in Thailand?

Bad?

It was an inappropriate joke about ladyboys, but actually the sexes are the wrong way round in your example. I am old

Ladyboy, boylady, whatever. Still sounds like a night to remember.