Comment by DoreenMichele

TBF, I think a lot of people don't actually know what battery is. Internet definition:

the crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive.

Most people hear of that only in the form of assault and battery. I always have to look it up because my mind wants to say "That phrase repeats itself. Surely, battery means being battered."

As for when is it legally rape? That depends a lot on the jurisdiction. Different places have different laws and there is lots of debate about the merits of some of those laws.