Since leaving Bountiful, Debbie Palmer has become an advocate for the women and children still trapped in the colony. She fights against what she calls ‘illegal cross-border trade in Canadian and American female children for sexual and breeding purposes’. Nightingale, board post 16th November 2002 ‘Leaving Bountiful’
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them. Jessica Valenti, ‘The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women’
If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street ... Because the odds are in my favour. In the States, someone is killed in a car accident on average every 12.5 minutes, while someone is raped on average every 2.5 minutes. Even when factoring in that, one, I am generously including ALL car-related accidents and not just those involving accidents, and two, that the vast majorities of rapes still go unreported ... And, thus, this is now the way I live my life: out in the open, in the middle of everything, because the middle of the street is actually the safest place to walk ... Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there. Kurt Cobain
Now piercéd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover’s fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute. John Wilmot
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped – by me. Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
8He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. W Somerset Maugham
Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviours as survivors of combat: flashbacks, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, depression, isolation, suicidal thoughts, outbursts of anger, unrelenting anxiety, and an inability to shake the feeling that the world is spinning out of control. Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
‘Statistically, the odds that any given rape was committed by a serial offender are around 90 per cent,’ Lisak said. 'The research is clear on this. The foremost issue for police and prosecutors should be that you have a predator out there. By reporting this rape, the victim is giving you an opportunity to put this guy away. If you decline to pursue the case because the victim was drunk, or had a history of promiscuity, or whatever, the offender is almost certainly going to keep raping other women. We need cops and prosecutors who get it that ‘nice guys’ like Frank are serious criminals. ibid.
Police and prosecutors are morally and professionally obligated to make every effort to identify specious rape reports, safeguard the civil rights of rape suspects, and prevent the falsely accused from being convicted. At the same time, however, police and prosecutors are obligated to do everything in their power to identify individuals who have committed rape and ensure that the guilty are brought to justice. These two objectives are not mutually exclusive. A meticulous, expertly conducted investigation that begins by believing the victim is an essential part of prosecuting and, ultimately, convicting those who are guilty of rape. It also happens to be the best way to exonerate those who have been falsely accused. Rape victims provide police with more information – and better information – when detectives interview them from a position of trust rather than one of suspicion. ibid.
Everyone in my life took my rape as lightly as a brief thunderstorm that might have been frightening when it happened, but was easy to forget about. I adopted that mentality as the foundation of my sex life. I would, time and time again, treat sex as flimsily as it started. I would give it away as if it was cheap, second hand junk, rather than a prize that deserved to be earned. Maggie Young, Just Another Number
I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick. Billy Graham
It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child. Todd Akin, republican, KTVI interview 19th August 2012
Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it (because we always find a way to blame the woman for letting it happen). In other words, rape is awful – except in war, where the enemy’s women are part of the plunder; except in marriage, where a man is entitled by law to have sexual relations with his wife even if against her will; and except in extenuating circumstances where the mere presence of a woman is cause for a man to rape her. Victoria Billings, The Woman’s Book 1974
People will say, ‘You can’t joke about rape. Rape’s not funny.’ I say, ‘Fuck you. I think it’s hilarious! How do you like that? I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd.’ George Carlin, Doin’ It Again, 1991
I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen. Richard Mourdock, Indiana senate debate October 2012
Their widespread and systematic nature indicates a structural pattern: rape is still used as an instrument of war and oppression. Sexual violence is used as a tool by the Burmese military to demoralise and destroy ethnic communities. The Women’s League of Burma, January 2014
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine. Andrea Dworkin
You think a woman can rape a man? Tabloid: Sex in Chains, reporter to Joyce McKinney, BBC 2012
Rape is common. America: The Story of the US: Division, History 2010
Black Americans must carry documents proving they are free or who they belong to. ibid.
Many escaped slaves use a network of secret routes called the Underground Railway. Harriet Tubman is its most famous operator. ibid.
Slavery is the burning issue of the day. ibid.
Rape in marriage was not made a crime until 1991. Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power ***** BBC 2015
Been raped lately, luv? Alan Bleasdale, Play For Today: The Black Stuff starring Bernard Hill (Yosser) & Michael Angelis (Chrissie Todd) & Alan Igbon (Loggo Logmond) & Peter Kerrigan (George Malone) & Tom Georgeson (Dixie Dean), Yosser to student, BBC 1980
The United States has the world’s highest rape rate of the countries that publish such statistics – 13 times higher than England and more than 20 times higher than Japan. [Senate Judiciary Committee, 1990: Facts about Violence Against Women.] University of Alabama Women’s Centre
The United States is ‘the most violent and self-destructive nation on earth’, a Congressional report said Tuesday.
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‘In 1990 the United States led the world with its murder, rape and robbery rates’, the report said. ‘When viewed from the national perspective, these crime rates are sobering. When viewed from the international perspective, they are truly embarrassing’.
The report noted that the murder rate in the United States was more than twice that of Northern Ireland, which is torn by civil war; four times that of Italy; nine times England’s and 11 times Japan’s. Violence against women in America was even more pervasive, the committee said. The rape rate in the United States was eight times higher than in France, 15 times higher than in England, 23 times higher than in Italy and 26 times higher than in Japan ...
Based on raw FBI data and preliminary statistics for last year, based its comparisons on Justice Department statistics for industrialized nations. Crime reporting standards vary in those countries, and crime rates for less-developed Third World nations generally are either unavailable or unreliable. But the report made clear that violence in the United States has no equal among the world's developed nations. Nor did 1990 have a modern equal for violence in America. Tim Weiner, San Jose Mercury News 1991
More than 50 women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, drugging or rape. Their allegations span five decades. He has never been charged with a crime with regard to any of these accusations. Bill Cosby: The Women Speak, caption, CI 2015
A cultural icon in crisis. ibid.
‘It’s so damned humiliating: we don’t want to ever talk about it again.’ ibid. victim
Cosby was also a regular at the Playboy Mansion in LA. ibid.
‘There was always a sense of something ... something was going on.’ ibid. Cosby Show actor
‘Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? Only when a male comedian called Cosby a rapist did the accusation take hold.’ ibid. Washington Post article Barbara Bowman 13th November 2014
They hate women and are mostly impotent. Don’t mistake rape for potency, sergeant. In the latter stages of the disease it’s the strangling not the sex that brings them on. Above all, of course, they are sadists. Frenzy 1972 starring Jon Finch & Alex McCowen & Barry Foster & Billie Whitelaw & Barbara Leigh-Hunt & Helen Merchant & Anna Massey & Bernard Cribbins & Michael Bates & Jean Marsh & Clive Swift & Madge Ryan & Gerald Sim & John Boxer & George Tovey et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, rozzer to rozzer