I always thought it was hella weird once I learned that he had raped her and even more sickening that they actually referred to it as the first time THEY MADE LOVE. But it was a different time then and the writers must have been smoking something. Also, wasn't AG only supposed to be short term at that time? That might have been why the wrote the rape in the first place. If ever something should have been rewritten as a bad dream--it was the disco rape.
It's so bizarre that Luke and Laura became so iconic despite that but we all know that they did. The only soap couple to ever grace the cover of Newsweek and their wedding still holds the record for most tuned in soap opera episode. A whopping 30 million viewers.