the language of 18 U.S.C. § 16, the definition of “violence” to only those forms of violence most traditionally feared by men — murder and serious bodily injury. To adopt such a restriction would be to exclude much of the “widespread incidence of physical assault against women” from the coverage of the VAWA. Tjaden & Tho- ennes, Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women at 12. The civil remedy provision of the VAWA represents, in part, Congress’s effort to remedy the ever-present threat of sexual assault and the continuing failure of our legal institutions to respond to that threat. In light of that effort, the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 16, and the precedential authority of Reyes-Castro, we conclude that nonconsensual physical sex d 344, 348 (S.D.N.Y.1999) (<HOLDING>). Rosquist did not raise the constitutional
holding that enactment of the civil remedy provision of the violence against women act of 1994 42 usc  13981 exceeded congresss power under the commerce clause noting that  13981 contained no jurisdictional element holding that 42 usc  13981 exceeds congresss authority under the commerce clause holding that the statute as applied violates the commerce clause holding that enactment of  13981 exceeded congressional authority under either the commerce clause or section 5 of the fourteenth amendment holding  13981 constitutional under the commerce clause