This, despite the fact that acquaintance rape survivors, as Warshaw points out, experience just as much post-rape trauma and anxiety as stranger rape survivors. Seen as either “honest mistakes”, “seduction”, “provocation” or “miscommunications”, acquaintance rape has historically – and remains – a “less serious” form of abuse than stranger rape. “I Never Called It Rape” contributed to a process of changing the very cultural lens through which the most common form of rape – that between people who are known to each other – is viewed. “I Never Called It Rape” by Robin Warshaw was a seminal book of its time, and for that it must be given credit. Shanice Octavia McBean reconsiders it now as a contribution to the discussion emerging from the last few years’ rise in anti-rape activism. Robin Warshaw’s book “I Never Called It Rape” was first published in 1988.
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