NP: Baby, It's Cold Outside

[Michael Bailey]

technically BICO details a seduction, not a rape.

There is a difference.

However, it poses a dual challenge which I think was familiar to its
target audience.

The first challenge is to what was long considered "Victorian"
morality, the idea that premarital sex is a bad idea.  Like Wall
Street traders chafing under the restrictions of Glass-Steagall, a
countercurrent arose culminating in the Sexual Revolution.  The
results of the newfound freedom justified the previous bondage in many
cases.  Wouldn't you agree?

And that's the second challenge, really: to both the partners to deal
with the consequences of their act.  The seducee assesses the
challenges she (in this case) will face in explaining this to all and
sundry - particularly to her maiden aunt (but after all, she is a
maiden aunt, and the lady is presumably wanting to not follow her lead
in that respect - according to the assumptions of the time, I hasten
to add...) -- her challenge will be to avoid regretting her decision
whether by enjoying the moment sufficiently to make herself a good
memory and move on with her life or by correctly assessing, and acting
on, a mutual desire to build something lasting together...

...while the seducer is offering comfort and refuge - the challenge to
(in this case) him, is to avoid making himself a liar by both
providing comfort and refuge that night, and by knowing whether (and
how) to provide his part of a lastingly comfortable refuge on a longer
term basis.