Nearly half of Caribbean women describe first sexual experience as “forced”
From Tyler Cowen’s post
at Marginal Revolution.
Which cites a May 4, 2007 article in The Wall Street Journal:
According to a voluntary survey cited in the report, 48% of Caribbean adolescent girls surveyed described their own “sexual initiation” as forced.
A single rape is a great evil; assuming that this number is even remotely accurate - I’ve no reason to think otherwise - this suggests a widespread tolerance - or endorsement of forcible sex among men. And resignation to it among women. From MacBeth:Â
when sorrows come, they come
not single spies, but in battalions.
On further reflection - I’m not sure what the other layers of meaning are here - only that rape - like torture, hunger, homelessness - it’s within our collective power to end them. Had we the wit and will among us to do it.
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