We need to rethink ‘intention’ in rape legislation

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The inclusion of intention in the definition of rape reintroduces the requirement that there should be physical evidence that the victim was overpowered. (Getty)

“Not all people are seen as possible-to-rape; it has to be someone who can be raped. Sex workers, wives, slave women and men are all categories of people that have at different stages been placed in the category of ‘impossible-to-rape’.” — Academic, writer and gender activist Pumla Gqola

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