"When a Rapist’s Weapon Is a Drug"

“Another is coercion; the perpetrator is aroused by domination, forcing his (or rarely, her) sexual will on the target. “This is common enough that we debated whether to include it as a diagnosis in the D.S.M. 5,” psychiatrists’ influential diagnostic manual, said Dr. Michael First, a Columbia psychiatrist who edited it. But the idea was shelved, in part because of concerns that doing so would give rapists added recourse in legal cases, he said.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/health/when-rapists-weapon-is-a-drug.html?_r=0

This fascinates me – I would love to hear more about that conversation.