Like people are saying “Oh, no, he didn’t rape the kid he just had sex with her.”
It’s much more likely simply a legal CYA maneuver on the part of the media outlet vis-à-vis libel allegations, to not use the name of the crime to describe an act that no one’s yet been convicted of.
Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.
Well, not to be pedantic, but that’s not accurate. Consent is not an intrinsic attribute of sex.
When you write “[word], by definition, is [definition]”?
Yes, you do, lol.