“A significant number of teenage girls suffer date rape as their first or nearly first experience of sexual intercourse.” This statement was made 21 years ago. I do not want to think about the current numbers. Even worse, I do not think we can get to them, and here is why.
Most of us ignore the fact that young women enter sexual relationships against their own desire and because they feel pressured. The underlying problem is that women experience this pressure for a very long time leading up to these first encounters with sexual intercourse. If they ever did not experience it.
Which is why women often do not even notice that they enter a sexual relationship because of pressure in the first place. They think to themselves, “this is what sex is supposed to be. I just have to get over this feeling that I would rather not do it.”
Friends, that fosters a culture like the one we currently have. I am thinking of so many of our College Campuses where date-rape and acquaintance-rape do not even show up on our moral radar screens. We do not recognize the extent to which it is happening, nor do we take appropriate measure against it. Unfortunately, this does not change the fact that it is nearly impossible to exaggerate the negative effects it has to be pressured into a sexual relationship.
Why do we passively watch this happening?
The quote in this question is from Robin Warshaw’s book, I Never Called it Rape.
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