This story is set in a dystopian future. The main characters are about 16, and are treated either as adults or as basically adults. Rape occurs in the context of these characters participating in an extended military training exercise where factions are created and pitted against each other in a long campaign. It happens 'off-screen' with mentions of screams. An attempted rape also happens in this context. These acts occur similarly to how they might in real life military conquest, and serve to demonstrate aspects of characterisation and the world/society. The characters mention and discuss these rapes, as well as hypothetical ones and ones that have happened in the past. In this story, there exists a class of people raised from birth to be sex slaves. This is not the focus of the book, and there exist otehr classes who are oppressed from birth (in different ways). There are no detailed descriptions of sexual violence in this book.