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If a goy put a gun to your head — even if you were a single girl — and said hug that man, you would have to let him kill you rather than hug that man. “
Really? A SINGLE girl???? Honestly, I doubt many unmarried girls or their fathers today would agree that hugging is the same level of issur as the type of arayos that most people interpret as yehareig v’al ya’avor. And she would be an anusah in any case. If she were a married woman, I would think the halacha is much clearer in the issur, and I still tend to doubt that those women would die rather than hug a man, when it is against their will. The Torah is talking about deliberate arayos, not something done against someone’s will. One should die rather than commit adultery or incest. She does not have to die to avoid being raped. Someone who has relations with an UNMARRIED woman, while certainly lewd and licentious in that behavior, has not committed a capital offense. Re-read the Torah.