Dick isn't saying he doesn't want sex, he's saying having sex with him is a bad idea, that he's toxic.
I don't give a shit what motivations Devin Grayson retrofitted onto her own scene to make it seem like a "question of consent." I say again, HE SAID NO, AND THAT MAKES IT RAPE. Regardless of what their reasons are for doing so, if one person explicitly states their lack of consent to sex, there is no further room for debate - it's rape, LEGALLY and MORALLY, period, the end
There's no sense that she's under the impression she's forcing sex on him -- at worst she's simply persuading him he wants it.
... Do you even HEAR yourself right now? These are the EXACT same words I heard, as a college campus rape prevention worker, from countless fratboy date-rapists. If there is a QUESTION of consent, then there is NO question - IT'S RAPE.
And quite frankly, FUCK anyone who decides to engage in fucking MIND-READING, and say to themselves, "Oh, but 'no' doesn't REALLY mean 'no' in this case," and fucking SHAME on Grayson for supporting the idea once espoused exclusively by misogynistic guys, that "no" doesn't mean "no" if YOU don't want it to mean "no." As a victim of sexual abuse herself, she should fucking well know better, and if she doesn't, then she has no fucking business writing stories like this.
This goes well beyond merely bad storytelling. This shit OFFENDS me, on a MORAL level.