How rapists were punished in ancient times was different in every era.
Since ancient times, women are the representatives of vulnerable groups, no matter when, women are in the weak side, women are weak, physical strength is not as good as men, therefore, women are often hurt, although the ancient society is very chaotic, but it is already a society ruled by people, rape after this kind of thing must be punished very severely.
The real record of rape is in the Tang Dynasty, and there has always been a saying of "obscene Tang", whether it is the political system, ethnic policies, diplomatic relations, etc., or the concept of sex between men and women, especially women are quite open in moral restraint, and even a large number of officials and women are not ashamed of remarrying.
The tang dynasty's laws were still relatively perfect, pursuing the principle that officials violated the law and the common people committed the same crime, raping women, taking off their pants, light publicly responsible for 100, and then exiled to remote areas, and then tied up prisoners in large sums of money, and then strangled alive, that is, the so-called hanging.
In the Song Dynasty, the crime of rape was further improved, and on the basis of the Tang Dynasty law, the punishment for sexually assaulting young girls (under 10 years old) was added, and those who brought harm to young girls were directly beheaded in public and died without a corpse.
In the Yuan Dynasty, because of the wide spread of "Cheng Zhu Lixue", the concept of women from the four virtues and the spirited woman not serving the second husband was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of martyrs emerged in society after the death of their husbands, scrupulously observed chastity, and were widowed until they died!
However, in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the punishment for rapists was more relaxed than in the Song Dynasty, changing the beheading to hanging, the attempted rape was 100, and the exile was 3,000 miles, and it should be noted that if there is a relationship with a young girl under the age of 12, even if it is adultery, it is sentenced to hanging according to the law!
But the funniest thing is the law of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a very strange standard for the identification of rape. Specifically, when a man commits a crime, the woman resists from beginning to end, and finally can't break free, so it can be characterized as rape.
However, if the woman is reluctant at first, but does not resist in the process, and acquiesces to the sexual assault of the man, then it will not be considered rape.
I have to say that the ancient variety of behaviors that punished rapists did make people clap their hands. However, history cannot be copied, the trend of historical development is irreversible, in contemporary times, the punishment for the crime of rape mostly appears in the form of imprisonment, and it always feels too benevolent to rapists.
