A person doesn’t have to break into your apartment for it to be a rape. Rape occurs any time someone forces something sexual on you. I’m not sure of all the legal doctrines are on rape, or when sexual assault becomes rape, but I am sure that your property doesn’t have to be violated for it to become a rape.
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Maybe the person feels violated by your not allowing him to yawn. I’m sorry, but I can’t buy your argument. Because of what you’re saying someone might roll his or her eyes and say, facetiously, “I’m sure.” the next time a person says he or she was raped. I’m sorry, but you are trivializing rape.
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the term rape is not strictly sexual… by its definition here is an example of its other meaning… the logging industries activities in south America are raping the rain forest… it can also mean to spoil or destroy a place or area…
I think that for it to fit in with the legal doctrines that decide rape cases among human beings it does have to be sexual. There are other legalities that decide when a person assaults you, kidnaps you, or takes your money.
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I didn’t tell you how traumatic you thought it was.
But don’t go to a survivor of sexual assault and tell them how you get it because of how you felt when you yawned after someone yawned. However sincere you may be about how you felt, it’s not going to go over very well.
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was not contesting that fact… just saying it has a non sexual definition that doesn’t take away from the severity of the word… to spoil or destroy a place or area… I guess I should have said the term rape can be properly used in a non sexual way but only in reference to a place…
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I didn’t realize that what I had said was insensitive towards rape survivors, I hadn’t considered it that way. I’ll use the term violated from now on instead.
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I’m not understanding how the person yawning is “forcing” anything on you, especially since they likely have no idea how their yawning is affecting you. 
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that’s only part of it
I was being overreactive. I shouldn’t use that term to describe my own experiences anymore. Because it isn’t fair to those who have been through it.
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We yawn to regulate the temperature of our brain.
Interestingly, while “contagious yawning” (a person yawning when they see another person yawning) is a real phenomenon, research (I’ll try to find the link) is showing that people on the autism spectrum engage in ‘contagious’ yawning to a much lesser degree than people not on the autism spectrum. Thus understanding ‘contagious’ yawning may be helpful in the understanding of autism–and schizophrenia.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201403/why-is-yawning-so-contagious
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