Let us get this straight: It is not women who get raped; it is men who rape. That is so because what does not change is the ‘mindset’ regarding rape, which tends to put the blame on women. This puts the onus of the crime on women instead of the men who commit rape. Rapes do not take place just because a man cannot ‘control’ himself, as the American woman supposed; they take place because he wants to control women. The stress on totally abstaining from sex is as problematic in this context as the stress on women as sex objects.

Source: The Hindu August 19, 2017 18:47 UTC