ErosBlog: The Sex Blog. SexFacts_tsj.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x4251 pixels) Scotland Anti-Rape Ad Tackles “She Was Asking For It” Myth. Trigger Warning for rape apologism.
A few months back, I wrote an article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free about a U.K. study, which showed a significant number of respondents thought that some rape victims were at least partially to blame for their attacks. The various reasons that respondents blamed women were the unsurprising — if she had been drinking, if she had worn something revealing, if she had engaged in some other kind of sexual contact with the rapist, etc. — but no less disturbing than they’ve always been. Well, it seems like someone in the Scottish government decided to do something about it.