Widows did the same with their dead husbands in India, at least until 1829, when the practice, known as sati, (which may have been coercive as often as it was voluntary) was banned.
In some instances violations of the principles of sovereignty have been coercive, as in the imposition of minority rights on newly created states after the First World War or the successor states of Yugoslavia after 1990; at other times cooperative, as in the European Human Rights regime or conditionality agreements with the International Monetary Fund.
And the rape may have been coercive and unwanted, but it was not violent.
There is graphic prostitution, which turns out to have been coercive, "hulking" black men who prey on white women and get their comeuppance, and a cuckolded white boyfriend whose attempted suicide is greeted with laughter.
"Each iteration of the global gag rule has been blatantly coercive, both in intent and practice, and is moving forward in lock-step with the Trump administration's non-stop assault on reproductive health services," said Heather Boonstra, head of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and advocacy group on female and reproductive health.
It has been accused of coercive and deceptive practices, including misleading students and oversight bodies about job placement performance in order to justify career training programs with sky-high prices.
Liberia has been roundly criticised for coercive measures that hinder disease surveillance and harm economic activity.
The recovery process has been monitored by magnetic coercive field measurements.
And these places have seen economic growth at rates surpassed only in China, where fertility has also plunged, but growth has been accompanied by a coercive one-child policy.
Throughout human history the law has been known as a coercive institution, enforcing its practical demands on its subjects by means of threats and violence.
