Michael

Rape is an attack on the **; that has everything to do with all the psychological and emotional issues.

Michael

The ** is the instrument of rape.

The ** is the target of rape.

Michael

The ** is the target of rape.

let me be blunt in response: yaoi buttsecks rape.

not all rape victims are women, duhr.

Rape - you live to tell the pain

Murder - you haunt to tell the pain

When the rape victims is alive after, their mind is forever undergoing the events of what happened to them. Its a mental scar and a type that doesn't easily fade and never goes away completely.

And it's different if you murdered someone?

Of course, I can murder someone and they'll be dead, their suffering ended. There can also be many circumstances surrounding a murder. Say you're robbing someone and they spook you so you kill them. Its not a good reason to kill because you shouldn't be robbing either. But rape is the crime itself, rape is a means to an end. Sometimes there might be murder, either to silence the witness or to get off. But rape as a crime occurs out of some sick power trip. It's not like murder in most ways. Likewise the victim of murder ALWAYS dies because murder is death of the person. The family might be traumatized by the death, but its victim is moved on. In rape the victim and everyone around them feels it. I've know a girl who was raped, they change. And you feel it every time you're near them. Every time you look at them.

I think you are underestimating the trauma someone goes through when they have had a loved one dies. People can come back from a rape, you can never get back what you had with the person who has died.

Personally I think it'll depend on the person. Someone who's experienced a death, say in the family or of someone close, due to a murder will probably never really want to read about a topic like that. No Raymond Chandler novels for them. Whereas victims of rape will feel the same way about that kind of topic. Either way, it brings up painful memories.

When it comes to writing about either of those issues, I think with murder there tends to be more of a suspension of disbelief due to murder and death being so prominent in mainstream media (i.e. film, video games, etc.). We're used to the idea of people killing other people because we see it and/or hear about it all the time, though often it's in a fictional sense. Rape, on the other hand, is a touchy topic because it happens so often on a very real scale. It's scary, if you think about it. I do agree that rape is much more psychologically damaging to its victims than murder, and because the victims survive to relive the experience over and over (mentally) that's what makes it so damaging. It's difficult to write about such a thing too, given that it almost feels disrespectful to be writing about a fictional rape when so many people have actually suffered through it.

Not to downplay the trauma and suffering of a murder, but rape, in my opinion, is often times a much worse crime.

When it comes to writing about either of those issues, I think with murder there tends to be more of a suspension of disbelief due to murder and death being so prominent in mainstream media (i.e. film, video games, etc.). We're used to the idea of people killing other people because we see it and/or hear about it all the time, though often it's in a fictional sense. Rape, on the other hand, is a touchy topic because it happens so often on a very real scale. It's scary, if you think about it. I do agree that rape is much more psychologically damaging to its victims than murder, and because the victims survive to relive the experience over and over (mentally) that's what makes it so damaging. It's difficult to write about such a thing too, given that it almost feels disrespectful to be writing about a fictional rape when so many people have actually suffered through it.

I do notice there are far more movies about serial killers than serial rapists.

Michael

Rape, you live to tell the tale and it's much more traumatizing. It can completely destroy someone's ability to trust, love, or basically be a human being. Crying themselves to sleep every night, being haunted with the memory for the rest of your life, not being able to trust even the people you know would die before they hurt you, etc., etc.

With murder, you don't live to tell the tale You're not traumatized by the event. You're just...gone. Not much more to it really. Depends on how you get murdered actually. It could traumatize the people around you.

-Kelli

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