Rape Convictions Should Be Life Without Parole. 1) Their Victims Will Never Be Safe If They Are Let Out

rape convictions should be life without parole. 1) their victims will never be safe if they are let out onto the streets again. 2) many rapists are serial rapists. 3) killing another person can happen in the heat of the moment by accident, with excess use of force while not intending to kill, in a situation of mutual aggression, or in self-defense or defense of others. but rape is unambiguously malicious and intentional–always committed in cold blood and never by accident. if you think anyone can be ‘provoked’ into rape, your humanity needs to be reevaluated.

leaving bruises on your partner isn’t romantic actually

As somebody with weird/gross kinks, I can say with authority that having/indulging in those kinks does not lead directly to sexualizing those things in a non-sexual context.

The social conditions which lead to an increase in prostitution, astoundingly, are not actually female enpowerment; they’re widespread poverty and exploitation. The increase in prostitution in Greece since the financial crisis is not actually because the women have been empowered by IMF/World Bank. The high rates of prostitution in refugee camps are not, astoundingly, because refugee camps are utopian bastions of gender equality. Invading armies typically do not arrive as liberators, so rather than explainig the growth of the sex trade in the wake of invasions of armies like those of the US or Japan as an act of genuine liberation, it makes more sense to seek other explanations.

One clue might be the fact that higher levels of prostitution are typically accompanied by higher levels of alcoholism, addiction, authoritarian political tendencies, crime, early death, unemployment, poverty, debt, and imprisonment. If this is caused by gender equality and womens’ liberation, then this form of womens’ liberation is the greatest enemy of people everywhere.

pornography has probably just irreparably damaged human sexuality

The Will To Change by Bell Hooks fucked me up good