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Heather was over last night. The discussion was heavy as it tends to be when it's just the two of us and we wound up discussing Rape Gate or whatever you call it. We shared our stories with each other, something we had never done before.

Second semester freshman year in college that would have been 1994 a bunch of us girls were hanging out in the dorms drinking, smoking, playing cards as you do and we wound up on the topic of sex, which often happens around women in my experience, or at least happens around me because I enjoy talking about sex.

ANYWAY

9 women in a dorm room all aged 18 - 19
8 of us had been sexually assaulted and/or raped

That ninth woman she was a virgin. She was also raped the next year -- date rape, a guy got her drunk and didn't take no for an answer. Only two of us had been beaten or held at gun/knife point. All of the rapes were by people we knew well and considered to be friend or lover. None at the time confessed to incest. None at that time reported their attack.

I forgot to make the poll anonymous and I apologize for that.

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ETA:

My own stories behind the cut.

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