Our thanks to Rick for this. It’s a mystifying case because the feminist-drafted Sexual Offences Act 2003 defined rape as requiring penile penetration. The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 confirms this is also the case for Northern Ireland.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Hmmm…. You’d have to look at the precise wording of the law. It seems there was penile penetration in this case, though on the part of the male victim, rather than on the part of the perpetrator. I’m guessing that the wording of the law doesn’t require a distinction to be made, and the judge picked up on that. If that was the case, then the real issue would have been if there was consent or not. Just guessing, though.
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Thanks Rob. As you might imagine, the precise wording of the law couldn’t be clearer. Only men can rape according to UK law.
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A follow up comment: If the law does indeed require “penile penetration”, then female on female assault would be classified as sexual assault, but not rape as such. Rape appears to be a crime that requires at least one of the parties to be male.
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Of course strictly speaking “Rape” only refers to one specific form of “Sexual Assault” in the Act. I presume the conviction is under one of the other three offences, probably “causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent”.
However its good this man was treated seriously. I suppose “no distinction” is makin the sensible point that males can also be affected. After all one of the tropes wheeled out is that boys abused by female teachers are unaffected or like what happens to them.
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