“Sometimes, someone who has been through a trauma relives or reenacts that trauma; revisits it. As a way to understand it, to control it, to redefine and contextualize it. “Women may have another sexual encounter with a man who raped them, telling themselves that this time since it’s by choice, the prior encounter can be reframed in their mind. Or, they recreate their dehumanization in sexual experiences with other men, and call it sexual liberation.”
