Justin Halpern Quotes

The use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

…rape, incest, and me.

I've been raped in Macy's window at high noon.

In Iran they believe that girls who are virgins go to heaven. So when a young woman is in prison to be executed, they rape her before they kill her.

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery. You cannot imprison a free man forever unless you have broken him; and you can only forcibly break a man's soul by torturing it out of him. Slavery dehumanizes; torture dehumanizes in exactly the same way. The torture of human beings who have no freedom and no recourse to the courts is slavery.

It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.

I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.