Title: Society's View on Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Headings: Society’s View on Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Society’s View on Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
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Content: She was in her bedroom folding laundry, waiting for her husband to return home. It was a breaking and entering situation. One of the towels she was folding was crammed down her throat to keep her quiet, cutting off her oxygen. She was viciously sodomized. Granted, there may be some who are sick enough to find that description arousing. I’m sure they are not envisioning their wife, daughter, mother or sister while they create a visual picture in their mind. And anyone who finds pleasure in this sort of thing is in dire need of serious therapy. Perhaps these sorts of people should make contact with RAINN, the foremost organization in America working against sexual assault, rape and incest. And domestic violence? Do you realize how many times I have heard from victims who suffered broken noses, arms or jaws whose spouse or intimate partner ‘s excuse to law enforcement was, “If she’d have kept her mouth shut, she wouldn’t have gotten hit.”