We wanted to show that rape isn't just about sex, or about passion or enjoyment for the rapist. It's often violent, abusive, demoralising and brutal, and victims are left not only emotionally but physically scarred by the experience. Victims take years and years to overcome the experience, and some never do. It's far more then just sex being forced upon someone. It's hard to define a 'stereotype' of a rapist - obviously we all automatically think of a hooded youth hanging around in a park to pounce, but really they can't be generalised so easily, and are people driven to rape by all different sorts of experiences - abusive childhoods, drink and drugs problems, and so on. The only stereotype or 'key signifier' i could think of personally of a rapist was that they may wear a balaclava or hoodie to conceal their identity.
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