Rape and pregnancy

“The idea that some women are ‘asking for it’ clearly has a long history. Doubts about female honesty were reinforced by medical ideas about conception , which suggested that a woman had to release seed in order to become pregnant, and that this seed was only released when she experienced sexual pleasure. This led to considerable debate about whether a woman could fall pregnant as a result of rape; did a pregnancy prove that the encounter was actually consensual? (K. Harvey, 277-278).