 Both of these forms of "raptus" had a civil penalty and possible excommunication for the family and village receiving the abducted woman, although "raptus violentiae" also incurred punishments of mutilation or death.In the United States, a husband could not be charged with raping his wife until 1979.In the 1950s, in some states in the US, a white woman having consensual sex with a black man was considered rape.