I concur that Faith is morally ambiguous - however, I'm not sure that I agree with your reading of the scene. By which I mean, I do think that this is the point from which we're supposed to start worrying about Faith, however, I also really feel like the show didn't actually do any work on convincing us that what happened to Xander was wrong, as opposed to what Faith did was wrong - that's a weird distinction and I need to rewatch the scene, but it always felt to me like Faith was being cast as the bad girl more because she was interested in sex and agressive about getting it, not because she was actually raping Xander.
-- which is not to say that I disagree with a reading of that scene as rape, because I don't.
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I concur that Faith is morally ambiguous - however, I'm not sure that I agree with your reading of the scene. By which I mean, I do think that this is the point from which we're supposed to start worrying about Faith, however, I also really feel like the show didn't actually do any work on convincing us that what happened to Xander was wrong, as opposed to what Faith did was wrong - that's a weird distinction and I need to rewatch the scene, but it always felt to me like Faith was being cast as the bad girl more because she was interested in sex and agressive about getting it, not because she was actually raping Xander.
-- which is not to say that I disagree with a reading of that scene as rape, because I don't.