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Feminist Porn Site Helps Assault Survivors Rediscover Pleasure

''You don’t need to consult the host of available statistics about sexual violence to know that the crime is a commanding force, one that can stun and stunt its victims, one that can take effort to push past.

Recently, rape survivors have been given a voice by the media, encouraged to speak about their experiences as a means of moving forward and of informing the public about the specific losses suffered at the hand of assault. Jessica Knoll, author of Luckiest Girl Alive, recently confessed on Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter that a crime detailed in her book -- a violent gang rape -- actually happened to her. A woman attacked by Stanford student Brock Turner voiced her anger over his lenient sentence on BuzzFeed. And these potent confessions are only the most recent in a wave of public outcries...''

by Maddie Crum