Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It

by Kate Harding

But if the real crime of rape is sullying a pure woman with the filth and sin of sex—making her “damaged goods” in the eyes of other men—then of course it matters whether she was a virgin, and what kind of situations she willingly “put herself” in, and whether she deliberately risked further physical injury to demonstrate her refusal.