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Friday 12 September 2014

YOU WERE NOT RAPED

It’s not that I don’t empathize with you. He let you down. He probably cheated. You feel used, I understand. And I sincerely feel sorry for you.

But I don’t understand how when you had consensual sex while you were dating and you promised to marry each other, it was both of you ‘making love’ and the moment he broke his promise, it became him ‘raping’ you. I’m sorry lady, but the truth is, he dumped you! Yes, he used you, but you weren’t raped. Rape is when a monster irregardless of your consent claims your body. Usually he does not have your consent. Did I mention that he does not even regard the necessity of your consent?

When you claim your previously love-making sessions fuelled by desire and passion on both sides to be ‘rape’ once he dumps you, you are exploiting an immensely serious word and a horrific act, which leaves victims scarred for life. Very few recover from what they experience though none of it is their fault. When you term your circumstances for what they aren’t, you are diluting this grave crime that we call ‘molestation’. 

He might have played you but it was with your consent. As brash and uncivilized as it sounds, you agreed (literally) to share the bed with him and one thing led to the other. You permitted him to do what he did. You were partners to what occurred. And now, you unfortunately are confusing the meaning of the word. Had you been in a relationship with him and he’d forced himself on you, it’d be rape-what you claim it is. Or even after your consent, if he did what you hadn’t permitted him to, it would be rape.

He betrayed you lady. That is what he did. You shouldn’t have attached sanctity to love making if you treated it as a condition to marriage and then indulged in it before you were married. He didn’t rape you. He broke his promise and let you down. Yes, he broke your heart. Yes, what he did is unforgiveable. But it’s a relationship gone wrong. He stabbed you in the back.


I absolutely, whole-heartedly support our war against rape and that includes identifying when it has occurred and when it hasn’t.



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