Trigger warning for sexual assault survivors!
I was going to write a post about this subject, but it's perhaps too soon for me to gather my wandering thoughts into something understandable and worthwhile. For now, I'll just link to the excellent
The Not Rape Epidemic. If you've never read it, do so. It's a great essay. Otherwise it's worth a
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Jesus Christ, I had the body of a grown woman at eleven. It didn't mean I wasn't still a child. (I think the most shocking part to me, sadly, is not the fact that so many late-teen/early twenties men are willing to have sex with 11-13-year-old children, because the willingness to make excuses for the likes of Roman Polanski really speaks volumes about that, but the fact that in that specific instance the child's parents knew and apparently were not disturbed or upset by the idea of a legal adult "dating" their eleven-year-old).
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I can't understand how parents would let their eleven year old seriously date someone, let alone someone so much older. D:
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But yeah, it does not surprise me that people can find new and exciting ways to excuse statutory rape.
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Hmm. Maybe it should go on the resource page?
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Something else that I think needs to be said/done more often, is educating boys as well as girls. And not just in the "protect your female friends" sense, but teaching what constitutes consent and how they are not entitled to someone else's body, and to discourage such behaviour among their peers.
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