"Feminists have long argued that sexual assault is about power and not sex – it’s about turning what should be a pleasurable act into a weapon and an expression of dominance. We’ve argued that the role of sexual assault in society isn’t just about individual violence – one person wanting to do harm to another person for a specific reason – but that it’s a broader form of gender-based terrorism, where women and girls are positioned as always vulnerable, and where rape serves as a pervasive threat which curtails our full freedom to move through public space. Those things are all true, and sexual assault of women and girls is still very much a social tool employed to keep us fearful and relegated to the private sphere"
— Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women?
