habibi -> RE: Rape after effects (7/6/2007 12:15:15 AM)
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i thought i knew what i would do were i ever to be raped..until it happened when i was 17. i was not however conscious while it happened, so perhaps things were a bit different. i only know what happened because of the major damage that was done to my body and didn't have to endure the details of it. i always thought i'd lust for vengance, that i'd want him dead, castrated, something. ....but in the end, all i wanted was to heal, hope i could have children and be done with the whole situation. i didn't tell anyone but my best friend and my boyfriend at the time about it...not my parents, no one else. but now, the only time it bothers me is when i have to tell a significant other about it. and that's more because i have to deal with their reaction to it. but, never has it been one of arousal, outrage..tears..sympathy and bloodllust, yes.....but never anything sexual. i'm not sure what i would do in that situation. i think i would probably be upset, since the details were not of overpowering me, but of drugging and maiming....and i fear the ones who find pleasure in the thought of that....i can understand an outsiders perspective, especially a man's in that it's much more of a story and not something they can truely relate to. i have learned from first experience that you can't possibly know how you'd react to being raped if you haven't been, since the best you can do is know what you THINK you would do, not what will actually happen, when and if that happens. it's two very different things.
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