So how exactly would you tell this story to make it Politically Correct? Everyone eventually acknowledges that what they did was wrong. What else should the writers have done? Would you send the guys off to prison in chains? Then maybe you could end the whole show with a number from "Jailhouse Rock".

By the way, in the Phrase "Rape of the Sabine Women", the word "Rape" has its original archaic meaning of abduction or theft as in Alexander Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock". It doesn't have it's modern meaning of forced Carnal Knowledge. What the movie is really about is the conflict between what Machiavelli calls the Christian and the Pagan Virtues. The women are constantly quoting the Bible, and Howard Keel's character is quoting Plutarch.