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Rape often causes feelings of dirtiness, worthlessness, etc that other forms of powerlessness usually don't.
by manyhands 9y ago
Rape often causes feelings of dirtiness, worthlessness, etc that other forms of powerlessness usually don't.
- mirimir 9y agoI guess. Many years ago, an ex girlfriend got back in touch, and wanted sex. Just once, it turned out. Then, I was diagnosed with Chlamydia and HSV. And later, I hear from mutual friends that she was bragging about infecting me. Anyway, that I feel dirty about. Because I will have HSV for the rest of my life. Maybe that was rape, but in a devious way. And I get that forced risk of disease is part of the trauma about rape.
- cperciva 9y agoI don't know about whatever legal jurisdiction you're in, but in Canada that would be an open and shut aggravated sexual assault case. People have gone to jail for failing to disclose that they have an STD, on the basis that you're not really consenting if they leave out an important detail like that; to deliberately infect someone is far beyond that.
- mirimir 9y agoYes, I'm sure that it's illegal now, everywhere sane. But this was a long time ago.
- cperciva 9y agoAh, ok. I tend to assume that anything people talk about on HN is fairly recent, since most people on HN were born fairly recently...
- true_religion 9y agoReally? I fall into the assumption that most people are near my age... and I was not born too recently.
- mirimir 9y agoTrue enough, but there's a tail.