When sexual violence circulates primarily through jokes, abbreviations, or ironic references, audiences may become emotionally distanced from the reality of the harm involved. The act remains visible, yet its emotional gravity is diminished.

The crime of rape is as old as conflict itself. A curse that has managed to persist through generations and stained nations, societies, families, and individuals with its miasma. Rape law can date back as far as 1900BC in Babylon in the Hammurabi code.