I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. I was lucky that he wasn't really in my circle of friends and I never saw him again after that weekend.

It happened at a party when I was a naive 16-year-old virgin. It started consensually but he didn't stop when I said I didn't want to go beyond 2nd base. He randomly came to my best friends house for a party the next weekend. Nobody asked him to leave because they didn't want to hurt his feelings or make things weird.…

My girlfriend was raped by her father as a child. When she went to her mother for help, her mother called her a whore that deserved it and beat her mercilessly. She was 9. The next five years of her life until she finally ran away consisted of a steady pattern of getting raped by dad and beaten by mom for being raped…

Maybe you should fuck back off to whatever MRA subreddit you crawled out of, dipshit.

Don't beat yourself up. You never stood a chance. That much is obvious from these comments alone. It's not as though you cheerfully, at the peak of mental and physical health, decided in a vacuum: "Oh, pshaw. What's a little rape between friends?" You are not responsible for rape culture.

I'm so sorry. So, so sorry. My sister initially believed and supported me regarding another family member's assault of my son, and then a few days later, told me I was never to speak to her again about the event. That was four years ago and I lost my entire family because I did the right thing and reported it. …

Strangely, for non-consensual sex, the word "rape" still works. I guarantee you that the friend who sexually assaulted me did, in fact sexually assault me, even if I did not act in the way you would expect me to after.

or not. because rape is rape regardless of the relationship between the victim and the aggressor before or after the assault.

This IS exactly why people don't report, and it's also why consent education is crucial — for *women,* as well as for men. When women are raped, they too often internalize the dominant script — it must have been an accident, a mistake, a miscommunication, probably their fault at least as much as his, etc etc — and…

Wow. That comic strip was intense as hell. Took me a while to close my mouth back up. Thanks for the link.

Thank you for sharing your story. I am so sorry this happened to you. That comic may be one of the most powerful things that I have ever seen.

Wonderful comic. Thank you for sharing!!

I think it's just hard to reconcile the mental image of someone you know, like, and (presumably) trust with the person who just violated you. It is easily to try to downplay what happened, or convince yourself it was a "misunderstanding," or whatever mental gymnastics you need to use to try to make it go away so your…

This is exactly why I didn't report. I had sex with my rapist on a few occasions after he raped me because I thought I was claiming some control and maybe the rape would fade away behind these other encounters. Friends begged me to report but I knew I'd be dead in the water.

I must have tried every flavour at some point, but what stands out most in my memory is the gem-series with rhinestone lids… They were really gritty because they were so damn jammed with sparkles. It was like spreading waxy sand on your lips…

It's almost as though their medical training gives them a special understanding of how drugs work?

Designers, use the models-in-underwear accessory wall thoughtfully.

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