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[–]MarkTwainiac 32 insightful - 3 fun32 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

What if she had used a carrot? A bamboo plant? A fist, a dildo, or ANY OTHER BODY PART OR OBJECT?

Semen only comes out of penises. Semen contains sperm, and as a result a good number of female victims of penile vaginal rape end up pregnant and thus have to deal with the additional difficulties of either going ahead with the pregnancy, or terminating it. That means that in addition to dealing with the emotional and physical trauma of being raped, a woman could be in for a great deal of other emotional and physical suffering, some of lasting a very long time.

If a woman ends up pregnant as a result of rape and she goes ahead with the pregnancy, she runs the risk of developing a host of health problems - such as high blood pressure, hemorrhoids, serious childbirth injuries - that can have long-lasting implications and affect her health negatively for the rest of her life. Also, she can die giving birth.

Even if a woman is not impregnated during a penile vaginal rape, if she is in her "childbearing years" and is capable of ovulating (eg not on hormonal BC or so underweight that her cycles have stopped), the possibility that her rapist might have impregnated her will be a huge worry very much on her mind until she gets her next period. That's a lot of anxiety and dread heaped on top of the trauma of rape.

If the other named objects, a fist or "any other body part"* are used to vaginally rape a woman, they can still cause injury to her vagina, labia, clit, urethra and urinary tract, perianal area, pudendal nerve, etc - and can cause bruising and skin tears to her thighs and genital area more generally.

If these other objects, a fist or "any other body part"* used to commit a vaginal rape happen to be contaminated with pathogens, they can expose the woman to various dangerous diseases too.

Some of these pathogens - regular staph, fungi, MRSA, E. coli, enterobacter, klebsiella for example - cause infections that aren't specifically sexual in nature. However, if a fist or "any other body part" is used to vaginally rape a woman, it can lead to certain sexually transmitted diseases that are spread by skin-to-skin contact: these include genital herpes, syphilis, and human papillomavirus (HPV), which in turn can lead to cervical cancer.

Using a penis to rape a woman can also lead her to contract HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhea because those are infectious diseases that are spread by semen or blood.

Finally, although it's not known yet whether the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can be spread by semen or fecal matter, Chinese scientists have reported that the virus has been found in male sperm as well as in fecal matter many months after COVID-19 patients have recovered.

*Note: I keep putting quotes around "any other body part" because I am curious about which body parts belonging to adults other than a fist/hand/lower arm can be used to rape a woman. An elbow? A knee? A foot or big toe? A clitoris? A breast?

This woman wants us to believe that the sex of the man who raped her doesn't matter because "any other body part" belonging to males or females is just as likely to be used to commit vaginal rape as a penis is. Yeah, right. She just comes off as desperate, dumb and totally in denial. Sounds like folie à deux.

[–]divingrightintowork[S] 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She is in an awful spot - so I have empathy for her - but I can safely say she has not been raped by a female as evidenced by her words - also it is obvious a female cannot rape another female like that in any way - but also the way she describes, unless there are other extenuating circumstance.

[–]BEB 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry, I wrote my comment before I saw yours - well done!

I think that one thing we need to stress when we talk to people about the need for sex-segregated spaces is that women who are raped can get pregnant, and in many places, FORCED TO REPRODUCE. Men, no matter how "womanly" they feel in their pretty little heads, cannot.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No reason to apologize!

[–]Nona_Biba 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To add to your comment, it would probably be easier for a female to fight off another female who is trying to attack/ rape her than for a female to fight off a male attacker. So yes his sex matters very much.