Wow
Most of you have seen this The Open-Source Boob Project, I guess. Many other people have said stuff better than I could. But I still want to say something.
If you gather ten random women in the same room, there is a good chance at least one of them has been sexually assaulted in their life. And I'm being generous by saying one. And that's just in the US. The stats are wildly different in other places, but the exact numbers aren't my point.
73% of women raped (and rape isn't the only way to sexually assault someone) aren't by strangers. But people they know. Many of these women will have been sexually assaulted and/or raped when they were children someone they love(d) and once trusted. They grow up knowing that knowing that rapists aren't bogey-men, but the can same people they pass on the street.
So if a group of nine or so men who were strangers asked me if they wanted to touch my breasts? The possibility that they wouldn't take no for an answer would enter my mind. It would. It would for most women.
And that would affect my answer.
That is not sexual freedom. That is sexual oppression and abuse.
If you gather ten random women in the same room, there is a good chance at least one of them has been sexually assaulted in their life. And I'm being generous by saying one. And that's just in the US. The stats are wildly different in other places, but the exact numbers aren't my point.
73% of women raped (and rape isn't the only way to sexually assault someone) aren't by strangers. But people they know. Many of these women will have been sexually assaulted and/or raped when they were children someone they love(d) and once trusted. They grow up knowing that knowing that rapists aren't bogey-men, but the can same people they pass on the street.
So if a group of nine or so men who were strangers asked me if they wanted to touch my breasts? The possibility that they wouldn't take no for an answer would enter my mind. It would. It would for most women.
And that would affect my answer.
That is not sexual freedom. That is sexual oppression and abuse.