Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
Those four effects described above__haping a male-dominant view of sexuality, initiating victims, contributing to difficulty in separating sexual fantasy and reality, and providing a training manual for abusers__re at work just as much with men who have not engaged in activities that meet the legal definition of rape. Here we have to let go of a comforting illusion__hat there is some clear line between men who rape and men who don't, between the bad guys and the good guys.
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Those four effects described above__haping a male-dominant view of sexuality, initiating victims, contributing to difficulty in separating sexual fantasy and reality, and providing a training manual for abusers__re at work just as much with men who have not engaged in activities that meet the legal definition of rape. Here we have to let go of a comforting illusion__hat there is some clear line between men who rape and men who don't, between the bad guys and the good guys.
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