Though not an obvious choice for such a setting, "The Rape of Lucretia," as a chamber opera, suited the house well.
Todd Akin was apparently surprised that the concept of "legitimate rape" caused such a furor, but fear of rape cuts across all ages, races, and classes of women.
Her role as a flirtatious wife in The Long, Hot Summer (1958) established her as a star and was followed by such notable roles as a rape victim in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), a heavy-drinking rape victim in Sanctuary (1959), an uneducated, widowed mother in Wild River (1960), and a housewife turned alcoholic in Days of Wine and Roses (1962).
Posts such as "Rape a nigger bitch" and "If a slut blacks out drunk, she deserves to get raped" are common on the site.
Others may be suffering from denial following a traumatic event such as rape or a death in the family, preventing them from seeking out the services needed.
All that taken into consideration, we wanted to put the question to you: which is worse, Daniel Tosh making a joke about rape, or an elected politician saying that there is such a thing as "legitimate rape" and using that weak logic -- and bad science -- as rationale for public policy decisions?
If I was comfortable, it's not a rape... such information is valuable to me.
Other times it is less subtle, such as a witness in a rape case picking out a rapist from an array of photos in which the prime suspect had a letter R on his picture.
But, coupled with the news that such a large proportion of rape victims are children themselves, the case for good-quality sex education becomes even more urgent.
"These men thought that they can get away with this, that they could abuse them in such a way, sell them, rape them, take them as property, because so many people have gotten away with this in the past because of this culture of impunity," she said.
