Rape victims find courtrooms are dangerous places—so most avoid them. Nine of ten rapes go unreported. For those that go to trial, annihilating the victim—through insult, innuendo, intimidation, forced repetition of every detail, the pressure of continuing public humiliation before family, friends, coworkers—is still the rapist's best chance for acquittal; and acquittal is the usual outcome. Feminists call the trial “the second rape”.
Life And Death, Andrea Dworkin












