Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
