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The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordi...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...

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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...

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He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't wa...

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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to dr...

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There is a cop who is both prowler and father:he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,h...

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Adrienne RichDiving Into the Wreck

Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, hei...

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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

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It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it....

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The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, appr...

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Ann CoulterDemonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing ...

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Each night I am nailed into placeand forget who I am.Daddy? That's another kind of prison.It's not t...

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Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per c...

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn'...

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As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathol...

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She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me."Here, the funeral parad...

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People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

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Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their pos...

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David Foster WallaceBrief Interviews with Hideous Men

The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to c...

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The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

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Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but...

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She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. We...

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Ian FlemingOn Her Majesty's Secret Service

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body t...

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But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually ...

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There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They w...

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It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put...

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The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape v...

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But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two...

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Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you w...

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People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a k...

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Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who ...

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John UpdikeRabbit Redux

Police and prosecutors are morally and professionally obligated to make every effort to identify spe...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

The accused rapist, Calvin Smith, had graduated from a small-town high school the previous June, whe...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: 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 percent...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away w...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and ...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relat...

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Jon KrakauerUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I rem...

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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with ...

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Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen an...

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He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you ...

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there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason ...

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rap...

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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....

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More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how grues...

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