The problem of domestic/family intimate partner violence is largely a problem of violence by men against women and children. Comparing men's violence against female partners & ex-partners and women's violence against male partners & ex-partners, men's violence: Is far more common Has much worse impacts Is far less likely to be self-defence If we only… Continue reading Gender & DV: the key facts
Category: Victims
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I Let My Husband Rape Me, and Here’s Why… — by Amber Barnhill
I let him abuse me to keep him from abusing me. The problem with fundamentalist Christian culture isn’t that it doesn’t teach rape is wrong, but that it doesn’t know what rape actually is. Fundamentalist Christian culture taught me that if it wasn’t violent or you didn’t cry for help, that wasn’t rape, that was… Continue reading I Let My Husband Rape Me, and Here’s Why… — by Amber Barnhill
