Seriously though, I had no idea that the Amnesty International jury was still out on this one. At this point, any discussion of “human” rights needs to immediately address [i]female[/i] rights or I stop listening.

First, I doubt most of those “online women” were actually women (Especially if they made sure to feminize their screen name or mention their gender). Second, even if the vast majority of women and girls found rape to be a mere inconvenience, it is still a crime because it is against our will and no one–including other females–has the right to encroach upon our personal sovereignty, the most fundamental human right. Sadly, there are many women who refuse to understand that and they believe that simply because they too are women they get to decide what is acceptable for other women.

Explaining why rape or its commercialized form, prostitution, is wrong in our society is like trying to talk about the horrors of pedophilia to members of NAMBLA. Just earlier this summer, I read this MSNBC online article and this sex “expert” wrote to ensure this man that just because he masturbated to gay porn didn’t mean he was gay by calmly using the example that just because women had rape fantasies, it doesn’t mean that they actually “want to be raped.” This man–a doctor no less–had no clue that the basic definition of rape is that it is *against one’s will*, thus, you cannot possibly fantasize about it happening to you because that would involve desire.

I remember reading in some scholarly thing somewhere (which I have searched for and failed to find) of an instance of wife-beating in, I believe, Ghana or some other West or Central African country. The husband’s wife died of some kind of illness. He’d not been in the habit of abusing or beating her, and this fact made him so fearful that before allowing his neighbors to help with the funeral preparations, he actually battered his wife’s dead body so that no one would know.

Obviously, I don’t know if this is true. I know that I read it, but I don’t know if the sadly sympathetic spin the author put on the anecdote was justified. I’m just saying that when I read it, it seemed credible. Broke my heart again.

Trying to explain why pornstitution is harmful is like trying to explain why murder is wrong. If you don’t get it, you never will. Just go and die already.