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command rape

command rape
 n.— «This is something I have learned, and the Army family therapist…I’ve heard of a lot of stupid things. I have never heard of command rape. It’s when your superior has life-or-death decisions over you, so they can tell you to run across a minefield, and you have to comply. Basically they have all the life-or-death decisions over you. They coerce you or do something with you that’s sexual it’s called command rape.» —“Command Rape” by David Swanson OpEdNews.com July 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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