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that she will ultimately suffer the same pain during sex when under the authority of her husband? They said to him: One who has sex against her will is not comparable to one who has sex willingly. Apparently, the pain associated with rape is a direct result of the forced sex and not of some associa
The Talmud asks: If so, a seduced woman should also be obligated to make that payment as well. Rav Naḥman said that Rabba bar Avuh stated a parable: To what can this matter of a seducer be compared? It can be compared to a person who said to another: Tear my silk and be exempt from payment. Since s
The Talmud asks: But don’t we see that even a married woman has pain when she has sex for the first time? Abaye said: My foster mother told me that the pain is like hot water on the head of a bald man. Rava said: My wife, Rav Ḥisda’s daughter, told me that it is like the stab of a bloodletting knif
§ The Mishnah continues: The rapist gives payment immediately, and the seducer when he releases her, etc. The Talmud asks: When he releases her? Is she his wife? He did not yet marry her, so how can the Mishnah use the language of divorce? Abaye said: Say that he gives payment when he opts not to m
The Talmud asks: Granted, with regard to a woman who was seduced, it is written: “If her father refuses [maen yemaen] to give her to him” (Exodus 22:16), and the rabbis interpreted: I have only derived that her father can prevent the marriage; from where do we derive that she herself can do so? The