by Erik Dolson
Men should imagine themselves as victims of sexual aggression by other men. Go ahead, pull up that prison nightmare you’ve joked about for years, bar of soap included in the unlikely event your attacker wants to be gentle.
Feel the powerlessness? Experience the violation? How would you feel the next day? The year after that? What would you remember?
Imagine that if you report to the guards that you were raped, they won’t believe you, then ask if you encouraged the rape in any way or tried to avoid it, that they might simply laugh and say it’s not such a big deal, or even get off on it.
Do we all understand that this must no longer be the world of our sisters, wives and partners, mothers and daughters?
