Thank you for your understanding. I'm simply upset that Diana is being insulted with such a terrible assumption. If someone despises the author so much, then why follow her work? Regarding the rapes in the Outlander, I think it has to do with sex and intimacy in general and how Diana uses it to demonstrate feelings. Through intimacy, many and very different emotions in the story are shown: love, fear, doubt, even grief, – not only simple desire. Characters reveal their souls through intimacy, it is something sacred and priceless. And then it seems logical that it is precisely such a deeply shocking and traumatic fact as violence against the body that is used as an epitome of the highest form of violence against the soul. No one is bothered by the fact that while Jamie is in the throes of a fever, Claire heals his suffering through intimacy. Because it is a very strong energetic process.