The true meaning of "rape culture" is treating any and every form of sexual misconduct as equal to violent sexual assault. "Statutory rape" for example implies a level of violence which may or may not have occurred. It was necessary, I believe, when these laws were introduced, to convince people that something which was relatively common needed to be treated with the same disgust and vehemence usually reserved for the very serious crime of forcing someone to perform sexual acts. Treating each and every incidence of sexual misconduct as a worse case, and by implication damaging and painful, when it may have only been uncomfortable or confusing, can be harmful to the victim. Social pressure effectively forces victims to either "admit to the pain" in order to gain sympathy and support or risk being viewed as tainted, and potentially sexually deviant themselves. Little wonder so much goes un-reported, when you see how people react to both victim, with overbearing saccharine sympathy and with absolute tyrannic furor to the perpetrator, who the victim may have a continuing relationship with, intimate or otherwise.