In this patriarchal and gendered world, rape is a stigmatized crime wherein aspersions are cast on the victim instead of the accused. This emboldens menfolk who bank heavily on a woman’s silence to preserve her honour. It is also very easy to put the blame on the woman for bringing out the beast in a man. There is a justification that she should be punished for arousing him. Afterall if there were no women, who would men rape? So maybe it is the very existence of woman that needs to be blamed for turning our holier-than-thou men into rapists.

One important issue raised time and again is related...