Really, as a writer the only question you should ask yourself when depicting a really twisted sexual relationship: Is it taking or sharing? If one partner is taking instead of sharing, I believe it's quite obviously rape.

That can create some grey area too, like when time travel is involved, and someone who's in love with the past someone else will try to re-ignite a relationship, or re-live one, and the other person doesn't know the truth, but those situations are so rare and so complicated it gives most writers a headache just thinking about it.

I see what I think he was trying to do here. He was trying to create a modern version of a Silver-Age looking scenario, where tricking women into relationships or marriage was common. But since women are believed to be more sophisticated in comics these days, he thought he had to go further to make it believable. That's where it failed both in its intention and in execution.

The ultimate irony, though, is that, in the context of Women In Refrigerators, this all took place in a kitchen.