There are men, however, who suffer from erectile dysfunction due to physical issues, not mental. For those men, mental arousal and physical arousal are very different; they are mentally aroused, but unable to become physically so. The opposite can also be true. Physical arousal can happen without any mental arousal. I would think this most often happens with direct physical stimulation, but it seems like it should be possible to happen in other situations.
I have heard of women who felt shame after being rape because they became physically aroused. That doesn't mean that the women mentally were enjoying what was happening to them, but physically the arousal was there.
With the situation described in the article it seems that the man was able to get an erection even though he likely was neither physically or mentally aroused. Even if he willed himself to have an erection, he was still being raped since he was being forced into the erection. Regardless of the source of the erection, if a man is forced, coerced, etc into having sex without wanting to do so it is rape. The same applies to women, enjoying the sexual act does not mean that rape did not happen.
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