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Is Porn the Reason for Lower Rape Rates?

Mon, 10/03/2011 - 12:37
Submitted by Betty Dodson

Hi Betty,

My coworker and I were discussing the crime reports in our local newspaper (yes, I still read the old-fashioned, newsprint-on-the-hands newspaper). She and I are both in our mid-forties and we noticed that the instances of stranger rape seemed to not be a prevalent as they were in the seventies and eighties. I don't mean to belittle anyone's experiences with rape but it just seems like stranger-jumped-out-at-me rape either has decreased in our area (Baltimore suburbs) or it is not being reported in the media.

I Think I'm Having a Rape Flashback

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 15:28
Submitted by Betty Dodson

Hello,

I have been having issues when I am with my partner, or by myself and I cry. I haven't had an orgasm in 4 years. (Now watching your video I know that I have had little ones) I have had much intercourse and great orgasms when I was in the military, and for the most part didn't have a problem. (Although it may have been more to fill the hole of loneliness). I am not on birth control (tried for a couple of days and I would have rivaled satan).

I would cry for one reason or another, (mostly over the fact that I couldn't come or that it was his fault) but after reading one of your articles I was excited! I felt empowered! And was that way for a
while into the session. There was times that I laughed so hard I almost cried. Until I went to putting my legs over the side of the bed, and within a minute I was curled into a ball very scared remembering the first time my boy friend "talked me into it."

I tried to talk my self through it being very understanding, but it didn't really work. I ended up getting more upset. Many years after we had parted we talked about it and it never really bothered me till now.