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What Changed Your Mind About Sexual Violence?
I didn't ever think that rape wasn't a big deal, even though that would be consistent with the huggah culture view really because it's just sex. The main thing that I think I changed my mind about during those years was, there's a very common feminist slogan that comes up the second wave, which is rape isn't about sex, it's about power. If you look at the statistics on who victims are, who perpetrators are, in terms of things like age profile, the modal rape victim is 15. And the people who are very young, the proportion of victims who are over 30s and single digits,. Age of perpetration correlates very, very closely with age