“Corrective Rape,” defined as a hate crime aimed at converting lesbians to heterosexuality, is increasing at an alarming rate in South Africa.  Corrective rape is supposed to show the lesbians the error of their ways.  The absurdity of that premise, of course, shows that it’s just an excuse to justify the rape in the rapist’s mind.  The problem was first noticed in the early 2000s when charity workers became concerned at the growing number of attacks.  Some victims survive, but many of the victims don’t live after the brutal attacks.  Only a few cases go to trial, and 24 out of 25 of those end up with no conviction.  Victims hesitate to press charges since there is little hope that justice will be done and often the rapists are friends or family members.  The rapists become emboldened and the attacks increase since there is little fear of being caught or convicted.

One case in point:

Sizakele Sigasa, a women’s and gay rights activist, and her friend Salone Massooa, were outside a bar when a group of men started heckling and calling them tomboys.  The women were gang raped, tortured, tied up with their underwear and shot in the head.  Executed.  No one was ever convicted.

More sobering information:

Ever since a 1998-2000 report by the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs ranked South Africa as highest for rapes per capita, it has repeatedly been described as the rape capital of the world: 500,000 rapes a year; one every 17 seconds; one in every two women will be raped in her lifetime. Twenty per cent of men say the victim “asked for it”, according to a survey by the anti-violence NGO, CIET. A quarter of men in the Eastern Cape Provinces, when asked anonymously by the Medical Research Council, admitted to raping at least once – three quarters of whom said their victim was under 20, a tenth said under 10. A quarter of schoolboys in Soweto described “jackrolling” – the local term for gang rape – as “fun”.

Apparently, corrective rape includes gay males and well as lesbians.  It is a horrible situation.  People have been fighting to turn the tide for at least a few years.

As I read about the inhumanity and horror of “corrective rape,” I was reminded of another article about rape that I read just yesterday.  Fellow Victory Girl, Catherine, wrote about radical feminists who consider any PIV (penis in vagina) sex as rape.  That includes PIV sex between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends.  They say “consensual” isn’t really consensual because any enjoyment that women get from PIV sex is a result of conditioning by men to keep women under their control. Basically, to them, all men are bad, bad, bad. They don’t get the irony and absurdity of feminists vilifying half the population based on gender alone as they casually toss around the word “rape.”

Okay, radical feminists of the world, here’s your lesson for today:   “Corrective Rape” is real rape. Consensual sex is not rape – no matter how you craft your words.   When you so glibly use the term “rape” to describe consensual sex, it not only makes you look silly and hateful, it weakens the term and does further damage to the people who have already been horribly brutalized via real rape such as the “corrective rape” prevalent in South Africa.