Poldark (2015)TV series

Lifestylefeminismsex Last night American viewers finally caught up to Britain’s latest pop culture crisis when they tuned into Masterpiece Theater’s Poldark. For those of you who have yet to view last night’s episode, stop reading now. Or, if you’re anything like me, keep reading, then call out sick to view the episode and decide for yourself whether or not the love scene between the very married Ross Poldark and the widowed Elizabeth constitutes what some Britons are calling a “rape fantasy”:“The Poldark ‘rape’ scene would not be out of place in a porn film – a strong man who knows what must be done and a woman who apparently resists but wants it really,” Sarah Green, a spokeswoman for the End Violence Against Women campaign...