“It’s ‘just’ rape.”

“It’s ‘just’ rape.” That’s what one of the first year students said in my class today. “It’s ‘just’ rape.” Of course, this has a context, and in this context we were discussing Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved.” Our professor asked us to think about the dehumanizing indignities that were inflicted on the African-American characters. Several examples [...]

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I think you are working with a faulty definition

… of women’s sexuality. “In a similar line of thinking to Chivers, Marta Meana, psychology professor at University of Nevada at Las Vegas, argues that female desire is is actually based on being desired. After all, she led a study which found that while watching heterosexual porn men focus on the woman in the film [...]

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