Most of the impact of rape is a made-up self fulfilling prophesy.
“Life After Rape” is a good (aside from “there is no sex in rape” being false in an important sense) elaboration on (one construal of) this.
An analogous idea, that other people on this thread have come close to but not exactly said, is ‘spreading the meme of democracy to non-democratic societies causes needless suffering by making people feel oppressed, when their extrapolated volition if you hadn’t done so wouldn’t have come to care in the same way.’
The rape she describes sounds uncannily like a sleep paralysis attack—compare it with accounts of rape by demons and aliens. By which I don’t mean to belittle the experience—SP can be traumatic and horrible. I had some bad attacks as a teenager, the worst one complete with auditory hallucinations.
(It goes without saying that it is not impossible that her stealthy and competent rapist was physically real.)
“Life After Rape” is a good (aside from “there is no sex in rape” being false in an important sense) elaboration on (one construal of) this.
An analogous idea, that other people on this thread have come close to but not exactly said, is ‘spreading the meme of democracy to non-democratic societies causes needless suffering by making people feel oppressed, when their extrapolated volition if you hadn’t done so wouldn’t have come to care in the same way.’
The rape she describes sounds uncannily like a sleep paralysis attack—compare it with accounts of rape by demons and aliens. By which I don’t mean to belittle the experience—SP can be traumatic and horrible. I had some bad attacks as a teenager, the worst one complete with auditory hallucinations.
(It goes without saying that it is not impossible that her stealthy and competent rapist was physically real.)