
Yeah it was rape but bruhh he was under the influenced of drug. My baby Matthew will never do that with a clarity mind but hold up I'm not saying what he did is not bad. This is a fictional world created by the author. In this fictional setting, we are free to imagine and fantasize but not in real life. Everyone knows that It's bad and disgusting to rape someone and as a reader, we will only take that as a reminder for us to never normalised rape or think rape is good in real life.
For example, what if we read about a psychopath character. Do we want to become like them in real life? Hell no. But in this fictional world, this hot psychopath-looking guy is so damn awesome in our filtered-reader eyes. A reader should not follow or be influenced by the story that give bad influence to them. They just enjoy reading it