I'm curious as to why you're doing a project on rape. It's a good idea, don't get me wrong, but what is the objective - a book/zine/website?
Maybe you can look at issues going on in the rest of the world, like the guy who's been acquitted over in England for raping a woman due to sexsomnia - basically like sleepwalking with sex involved - and is free to go home, with no charges against him. Or the security guard who walked/(dragged) the drunken student to her dorm room and raped her and left her naked in her doorway, who got off because although she never remembered consenting - she was passed out at the time - she was drunk to begin with and therefore it was possibly a lie. Gotta love our justice system huh?
Anyway, if you want articles like this I have thousands. Like the 15 year old girl who was dragged off through Redfern last week by 17 guys and raped and then held hostage for hours til they let her go. The article was 1 paragraph long, situated on page 12, behind all the interest on Bec and Lleytons new baby!
You definately have a broad scope to cover, though it's good someone's doing it. Too much shit is happening in the world at the moment and the last thing we need is to allow ourselves to get overlooked again; if we don't keep letting people know that it does happen, then the easier it will be to say things like "but they was drunk" or "but they didn't say no", and actually get away with it. I was raped by my first boyfriend. I stayed with him afterwards for too long and even now I often deny myself to believe that it really happened. It's stupid how we can con ourselves into believing what we want to so we don't have to deal with reality and the truth. I wish I'd ahd a forum like this when it happened.
I also thought about male rape. Although it's not as common, there is a lot of it going on still - especially at those north shore private boys schools - I have heard some vicious stories of boys being physically abused with items that don't deserve to go near anyone's rear, let alone some terrified 12 year old boy. A number of kids have been admitted to hospital with rectal tissue damage and other unimaginable problems. It makes me wander what the x-factor is to determine how hostile the act is going to be. To not actually do the act, but let something else do it for you? It's wrong for too many reasons.
I think you've got a good thing going here, even if at the moment it's just an outlet for people to grieve or share with others.
Maybe you can look at issues going on in the rest of the world, like the guy who's been acquitted over in England for raping a woman due to sexsomnia - basically like sleepwalking with sex involved - and is free to go home, with no charges against him. Or the security guard who walked/(dragged) the drunken student to her dorm room and raped her and left her naked in her doorway, who got off because although she never remembered consenting - she was passed out at the time - she was drunk to begin with and therefore it was possibly a lie. Gotta love our justice system huh?
Anyway, if you want articles like this I have thousands. Like the 15 year old girl who was dragged off through Redfern last week by 17 guys and raped and then held hostage for hours til they let her go. The article was 1 paragraph long, situated on page 12, behind all the interest on Bec and Lleytons new baby!
You definately have a broad scope to cover, though it's good someone's doing it. Too much shit is happening in the world at the moment and the last thing we need is to allow ourselves to get overlooked again; if we don't keep letting people know that it does happen, then the easier it will be to say things like "but they was drunk" or "but they didn't say no", and actually get away with it. I was raped by my first boyfriend. I stayed with him afterwards for too long and even now I often deny myself to believe that it really happened. It's stupid how we can con ourselves into believing what we want to so we don't have to deal with reality and the truth. I wish I'd ahd a forum like this when it happened.
I also thought about male rape. Although it's not as common, there is a lot of it going on still - especially at those north shore private boys schools - I have heard some vicious stories of boys being physically abused with items that don't deserve to go near anyone's rear, let alone some terrified 12 year old boy. A number of kids have been admitted to hospital with rectal tissue damage and other unimaginable problems. It makes me wander what the x-factor is to determine how hostile the act is going to be. To not actually do the act, but let something else do it for you? It's wrong for too many reasons.
I think you've got a good thing going here, even if at the moment it's just an outlet for people to grieve or share with others.