“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
Wouldn't seen this if Anonymous hadn't been fing with the site earlier due to the SOPA drama. Sadly its back up, but this is a pleasant find.
The implications mean that women who felt violated during childbirth can legitimately call their experience birth rape without other women attacking them. We're all on the same team here.
If only that had the word "informed" before consent; that'd force doctors to respect our bodies, emotions, and preferences far more than what they do now.
Don't know what birth rape is, or how women could even remotely call birth a form of rape? It all has to do with how they're treated by their ever so compassionate doctors.
This sums up and gives personal stories: http://birthraped.wordpress.com/
Now maybe they can get justice. I hope ICers who've been treated like crap can have justice too. Sometimes doctors will just stick catheters up us without warning or asking.
Notice how the definition no longer exclusively includes penetration by a sexual organ or the intent of the perpetrator. If you felt violated, then you were violated.
This can bring me all the way back to the argument against enforced pap smears, but I think you guys are smart enough to connect those two things. I don't really give consent to the exam, I am coerced.
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