The report deplores the fact that children are often deliberately brutalized in order to harden them into more ruthless soldiers.
This recent wave of cable and streaming programs posit that women and children are often systematically targeted and brutalized, and that the structures of authority and governance put into place to allegedly protect members of the public often conspire, through inaction, indifference or the use of influence, to keep powerful and connected wrongdoers from being brought to any kind of true justice.
How they are often mocked and harassed and brutalized for being LGBT, even in shelters.
In addition to pornography, Flowers writes that, "Children caught up in this dual world of sexual exploitation are often victims of sexual assaults, sexual perversions, sexually transmitted diseases, and inescapable memories of sexual misuse and bodies that have been compromised, brutalized, and left forever tarnished".
That it's often impossible to tell whether the woman is being saved from, or brutalized by, the monster ("There's a combination of damsel in distress and damsel really in distress," Mr. Lowry joked) is perhaps the point.
"It's dehumanizing to be brutalized by people who have all the power to get stripped down, and often tied down and locked in seclusion".
The result is that history is brutalized.
My next column was about journalists being brutalized in Ethiopian prisons.
What is required is that they not be brutalized.
But images of women being brutalized are, sadly, nothing new in fashion, says our Adam Tschorn.
