Annie Zaidi writes about her early perceptions of rape, as influenced by movies and how Zakhmi Aurat brought in a new way of thinking.
For the first time in my life, I was being offered the idea that rape was brutal but it need not lead to death. For either victim or culprit.
It showed that rapists might well have non-aggressive sex lives, that their relationships with their wives might be very different, that their wives might actually be happy, and completely clueless about their husbands’ brutalisation of other women.
It taught me that just as victims can be stereotyped, rapists and their families can be stereotyped as well.
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