Here is a brief rundown of RS since so many people don't know why people use it.
Captured Crew mod let you capture the enemy crew and captains. You could butcher the crew into organs and they were slaves to be sold by default. Several mod author made the commodity illegal for their factions and no one really had a problem with it.
Captured crew had a BAD memory leak issue. It would eventually make your save unusable regardless. it's no longer listed seems like.
President Matt Damon made his mod Take no prisoners. It just let you capture enemy Officers. He was very slow to update and it had alot of issues. He eventually pointed out anyone could fork it if they wanted it fixed so bad.
Meanwhile Techpriest AKA Timid had been talking about making a dating SIM. Lot's of people liked the idea but Techpriest just kept teasing about it. Iron Shell was the same way i.e. Ironshell does exist.
RS Dev forked it and made this shit a reality. I don't know about how the development of it all came to be but eventually PresidentMattDamon got pissed and demanded it be taken down but he'd gave everyone free reign and couldn't take it back. People loved the dating shit since they loved it when Timid was gonna do it.
RSDev has slowly added every feature that modding cabal has felt was impossible to implement into the game. RS even has plugins that would allow other modders to do crazy shit but hey won't.

Given how Starsector is a sandbox with terrible options backed in and actively encourages the player to be a terrible person in Vanilla, even has tool tips for it. The mod took off. Technically the mod is amazing.

Well the reason why normies are against rape is it goes against their "It was consensual" mindset. Simple fact is lots of people get raped and spoilers it isn't the loser here doing it. People feel that regret after. People get hammered. Most colleges have a police department that's main job is preventing people from sueing for rape.