Gift is just the latest victim of "corrective rape" (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 18, 2014, 09:54 PM

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This is an ongoing horror for lesbians in South Africa. For more on the subject of "corrective rape", follow these links:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/01/16/clare_carter_investigating_the_brutality_of_corrective_rape_in_south_africa.html
The Horror of “Corrective Rape” in South Africa
By David Rosenberg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/udoka-okafor/corrective-rape-in-south-africa_b_4292271.html
'Corrective' Rape in South Africa: Targeted Violence Against Homosexual Womyn
by Udoka Okafor

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/world/wus-sa-rapes/
Horror of South Africa's 'corrective rape'
By Nkepile Mabuse, CNN

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21 replies	Author	Time	Post
Young lesbian murdered in an act of "corrective rape" (S Africa) [View all]	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	OP
...	historylovr	Aug 2014	#1
Gift is just the latest victim of "corrective rape"	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#2
^ n/t	BlancheSplanchnik	Aug 2014	#4
Makes me want to throw up	shenmue	Aug 2014	#3
Me too.	nomorenomore08	Aug 2014	#6
Absolutely disgusting.	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#5
So kids play rape	ismnotwasm	Aug 2014	#7
Like you, the word "corrective" gives me fits!	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#8
The term was not created by the authors	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#9
That is just nauseating!	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#10
It's out of control in many African nations	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#12
I join you in your cynicism.	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#13
Yes, I noticed.	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#15
I hear you, I have to censor myself too.	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#17
We're never supposed to be insulted or outraged	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#19
The ponies...I remember the ponies.	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#20
That's the way I judge my recs.	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#21
More stats	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#14
"More than 10 lesbians are raped or gang-raped weekly" WEEKLY!?!	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2014	#16
SA has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the world.	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#18
It's supposed to "correct" their sexual orientation	theHandpuppet	Aug 2014	#11

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