Not Her Real Name

July 5, 2008

The ugliest and most evil thing that could happen to a female or a male is rape. Sex after all is not just a physical activity—it involves our thoughts and emotions in the process. These are our most private and basic possessions. Once they are accessed against our will (rape is a special case since it is more often than not, violent), the effect will most probably be lasting lacerations on our life and consciousness. Thus, rape violates not just a person’s body, but the core of his or her very being: the identity.

 

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard of the PUP gang rape case. A 16-year old Marketing freshman claims that she has been drugged and then raped in turns for three days by 20 students in the PUP campus. There is an ongoing media frenzy regarding this case, and as usual, there is the blow-by-blow account of tests on her vagina and her bloodstream (for drugs), shots of the victim’s silent and immobile body covered with whatever jacket, towel or handkerchief is available, blurred head shots of the alleged rapists, and so on.

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