Rape?

Not at all. Women had thicker skin in those days and were far more liberated sexually.

Yes. I watched it in 1984 and thought what he did was wrong. But, it was a comedy, so it didn't matter. It made for an absurd and funny joke.

I don't know what people thought in 84, I was 4. I was probably 10 or slightly younger the first time I saw this? I dunno. Probably too young to realize what happened, but yes, that scene is.....yikes. It's also a comedy, so presented a little differently than a horror movie or drama, but yeah, not the best scene.

No we didn't. We were emotionally strong and understood when a movie is labeled a COMEDY, and is rated R, not to take it too seriously.

I was in my mid 20s when I saw this with my wife (fiance at that time), and after we left the theater, I remarked to my wife how lucky Louis was that the Pi didn't have him arrested for rape, and I was then and remain now the least woke person on the planet. That this was wrong was not debatable except of course for it being a silly comedy farce movie, which is why no one as offended or suffered PTSD from watching it.

Same with Porky's. No one at that time thought that spying on naked women in the girl's shower was OK, but the whole movie was just a low-brow comedy and everyone accepted that.

No. Everyone understood back then that it was a comedy and not to be taken similarly. There was a scene like that in Observe and Report in 2009 and people didn't freak out then either.

i was horrified

I never understood why so many people have a problem with this. I don't think they've thought about it logically.

She knows it's not her boyfriend. Her boyfriend, Stan Gable, is an athlete, and you would think she has had sex with him before, right? So, She knows how it feels. Contrast his body with that of Lewis and she would know right away.