Rape never crossed my mind until I read people saying it here. What I think is that the intention of the writers is that Nick feels he was conned, tricked, not raped.
One physically overpowers someone, or uses drugs to subdue them, for it to be rape (in my opinion). It's not that Nick didn't give consent (he was fully willing participant), it was more that he was essentially tricked into giving consent.
It's like if a man and a woman meet in a bar and the guy says all kinds of lies to the woman to make himself sound really impressive and she goes to bed with him (not necessarily that same night, say the 'con' goes on for a few days) and then he says to her that practically everything he said was a lie, would she feel "raped"? I don't think so.
How about another example. Let's say woman goes out with a guy who has a twin. The twin impersonates his brother and the woman goes to bed with him thinking it's her boyfriend. Is that rape? And realistically, would it be any different if the roles were reversed (the woman has the conniving twin)?
One physically overpowers someone, or uses drugs to subdue them, for it to be rape (in my opinion). It's not that Nick didn't give consent (he was fully willing participant), it was more that he was essentially tricked into giving consent.
It's like if a man and a woman meet in a bar and the guy says all kinds of lies to the woman to make himself sound really impressive and she goes to bed with him (not necessarily that same night, say the 'con' goes on for a few days) and then he says to her that practically everything he said was a lie, would she feel "raped"? I don't think so.
How about another example. Let's say woman goes out with a guy who has a twin. The twin impersonates his brother and the woman goes to bed with him thinking it's her boyfriend. Is that rape? And realistically, would it be any different if the roles were reversed (the woman has the conniving twin)?