Rape Culture
When you have the "avoid getting raped" conversation with your daughter, it is difficult, as you don't want to imagine her as a victim. The idea of having the "don't rape" conversation with your son is more difficult as you don't ever want to imagine him as a perpetrator. Do it anyway.
Dr. Phil McGraw, who hosts his own talk show, responded to outrage over a tweet he posted and then deleted Tuesday about sexual assault.
Traci Lords shares her story of survival growing up in Steubenville, Ohio, and being raped as a young girl. After learning about the Steubenville rapists, she decided to speak out against sexual violence with her new single "Stupidville."
Two teenage girls were arrested and accused of using social media to threaten the victim in the high-profile Steubenville rape case.
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There is no word in the English language less in need of a modifier, nor less capable of being modified, than rape. There is no mitigating the violation of the human body and all that comes with it.