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"text": "For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been self-rape.",
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"ref": "1972, Paul J. Stern, In praise of madness: realness therapy--the self reclaimed, page 46",
"text": "Only when he desists from his self-rape and gives his animal side its head, no matter how \"unnatural\" its aspirations, can he finally transcend it and grow into a human being.",
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"ref": "1985, Woman of Power - Issues 2-7, page 28",
"text": "Another parliamentarian, Gabi Potthast, agreed that the situation is destructive. To go into patriarchal politics and adapt to their ways is self-rape.",
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"ref": "1989, Eva Kolinsky, The Greens in West Germany: Organisation and Policy Making",
"text": "Thus, a first generation woman member of parliament for the Greens reported that she needed regular breaks from an atmosphere which she described as self-rape and in which she could only function by shutting out all emotions or personal expectations and functioning like an automaton (Spretnak and Capra 1985: 142).",
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"text": "If there is any way in which Lyutov is punishing or hurting himself, it is in forcing himself to act completely antithetically to his own nature. If one must search for a dramatic metaphor, the action is more self-rape than self-mutilation. Peter Stine calls the killing of the goose \"a violation of the soul\" (241).",
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"ref": "2005, Walt Harrington, The Beholder's Eye: A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism",
"text": "The worst part, they agreed, was having to pretend to feelings they didn't have because that's what the Red People expected. \"We were a pair of comrades discussing a decade each of self-rape,\" Donna says, \"a pair of prostitutes talking trade.\"",
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"ref": "1996 June 27, Howard L. Bloom, “COMCAST and RAPE”, in talk.rape (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2003 August 24, DrWarrenKrugar, “Personality disorders and why they are hogwash”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet)",
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"ref": "1975, Journal of religion and health - Volume 14, page 56",
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"ref": "1986, The Gestalt Journal - Volume 9, page 49",
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"ref": "1972, Raymonde Temkine, Grotowski, page 130",
"text": "At the moment when Faustus is damned, they don pontifical ornaments to cast him into Hell. Brown monks' robes are worn by the other characters. When Faustus signs Mephisto's pact he divests himself of his vestments in a sort of self-rape.",
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"ref": "1992, The Advocate - Issues 594-597, page 68",
"text": "\"In New York\" she recalls, \"I could go out to clubs and get laid. That's unheard-of in Santa Cruz, where they nurture each other and have sex side by side so that no one is on top. I dated a woman there who thought that using a dildo was like committing self-rape.\"",
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"ref": "1996, Heather Kerr, Robin Eaden, Madge Mitton, Shakespeare--world Views, page 144",
"text": "Emblematically, we have been shown martyrdom in an obscene mode, a religious 'dying' which Shakespeare hints, figuratively, is a kind of masturbatory self-rape.\"",
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"ref": "1998 October 29, Seraphina, “Shimon sorry”, in alt.abuse.recovery (Usenet)",
"text": "My ritual self-rape, the little poop trails I left around in my dresser and in the stable, I was trying to be noticed that something was wrong but all I got was silence.",
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"ref": "2001, Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, page 18",
"text": "It has been suggested that Lucretia's suicide can be read as analogous to her rape, her stabbing action taking the place of Tarquin's penetration. On Valla's account, this \"self-rape\" is far more reprehensible, both because it results in Lucretia's death and also because it involves her usurpation of the masculine action of stabbing oneself.",
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"ref": "1967, Industrial and Labor Relations Forum - Volume 4, page 25",
"text": "The shipping boom the industry had been riding since the prelude to the war collapsed in 1920. As Europe recovered from its self-rape and rebuilt its industries, the demand for American goods and the ships to carry them was greatly curtailed.",
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"ref": "1990, Laurence A. Rickels, Looking After Nietzsche: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty, page 38",
"text": "...as an act of \"self-rape\" by the \"willingly self-conflicting soul that inflicts suffering upon itself, out of pleasure in inflicting suffering\" (GM, II, § 18).",
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"ref": "1990, Linda Christmas, Chopping down the cherry trees: a portrait of Britain in the eighties",
"text": "Perhaps if you put people in shit, they behave like animals. The downtrodden destroying the places they live in is a bit like self-rape, isn't it?",
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"ref": "2016, Antonín J. Liehm, Closely Watched Films (Routledge Revivals)",
"text": "It seemed to me that there was a wide-open field for playing up all the unfortunate circumstances surrounding physical violence, rape as punishable by law, but also for attacking the crime of spiritual rape, and, finally, the worst of all, self-rape, violence against one's own self.",
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"ref": "2004 March 15, Electric Nachos, “Homophobia”, in rec.arts.fine (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2011, M. Middeke, Christina Wald, The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern, page 43",
"text": "Satan's pregnancy repeats the theme of melancholy and narcissism: he is 'self-impregnated, or self-raped, making love to himself and then to his daughter, the product of his incestuous mind' (Mulryan 18).",
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"ref": "2012, Nick Tosches, Me and the Devil: A Novel",
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"text": "It thus follows that if Ryuji and Noboru are two halves of one person, Ryuji's murder is a \"self-rape\" or self-killing, a \"suicide.\" (It is perhaps in this sense that every murder is a \"suicide.\"",
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"ref": "2003 January 31, HppyButchr, “Thought for you”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet)",
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"text": "It is the women who, suffering a kind of self-rape (they consent to be violated?), are victims of evil and, in the play's terms, carriers of it too, revulsed and yet intimate with corruption, while the Knights – for all their blustery self-exculpation –are merely a murdering machine.",
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"ref": "1972, Paul J. Stern, In praise of madness: realness therapy--the self reclaimed, page 46",
"text": "Only when he desists from his self-rape and gives his animal side its head, no matter how \"unnatural\" its aspirations, can he finally transcend it and grow into a human being.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1985, Woman of Power - Issues 2-7, page 28",
"text": "Another parliamentarian, Gabi Potthast, agreed that the situation is destructive. To go into patriarchal politics and adapt to their ways is self-rape.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Eva Kolinsky, The Greens in West Germany: Organisation and Policy Making",
"text": "Thus, a first generation woman member of parliament for the Greens reported that she needed regular breaks from an atmosphere which she described as self-rape and in which she could only function by shutting out all emotions or personal expectations and functioning like an automaton (Spretnak and Capra 1985: 142).",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2000, Eliot Borenstein, Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929",
"text": "If there is any way in which Lyutov is punishing or hurting himself, it is in forcing himself to act completely antithetically to his own nature. If one must search for a dramatic metaphor, the action is more self-rape than self-mutilation. Peter Stine calls the killing of the goose \"a violation of the soul\" (241).",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2005, Walt Harrington, The Beholder's Eye: A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism",
"text": "The worst part, they agreed, was having to pretend to feelings they didn't have because that's what the Red People expected. \"We were a pair of comrades discussing a decade each of self-rape,\" Donna says, \"a pair of prostitutes talking trade.\"",
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"ref": "1996 June 27, Howard L. Bloom, “COMCAST and RAPE”, in talk.rape (Usenet)",
"text": "I'm sure in your mind, that pee wee's masturbation was probably self-rape. We should cut off the offending hand. Uh oh, what if he used both?",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2002 November 1, Bryce, “Pornography addiction -- please help”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet)",
"text": "One perspective I heard when growing up was that masturbation amounts to self-rape.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003 August 24, DrWarrenKrugar, “Personality disorders and why they are hogwash”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet)",
"text": "In your case, it is self-rape, pure and simple - incestual masturbation.",
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"Masturbation."
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"ref": "1975, Journal of religion and health - Volume 14, page 56",
"text": "Masturbation undertaken with an inhibition of enjoyment, physical pain, or regrets and remorse is a genital example of self-rape.",
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"ref": "1986, The Gestalt Journal - Volume 9, page 49",
"text": "Masturbation can also be carried out as a self-rape, in which case it becomes doing to oneself what one would like to do to another — an act of aggression, not love.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1972, Raymonde Temkine, Grotowski, page 130",
"text": "At the moment when Faustus is damned, they don pontifical ornaments to cast him into Hell. Brown monks' robes are worn by the other characters. When Faustus signs Mephisto's pact he divests himself of his vestments in a sort of self-rape.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1992, The Advocate - Issues 594-597, page 68",
"text": "\"In New York\" she recalls, \"I could go out to clubs and get laid. That's unheard-of in Santa Cruz, where they nurture each other and have sex side by side so that no one is on top. I dated a woman there who thought that using a dildo was like committing self-rape.\"",
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{
"ref": "1996, Heather Kerr, Robin Eaden, Madge Mitton, Shakespeare--world Views, page 144",
"text": "Emblematically, we have been shown martyrdom in an obscene mode, a religious 'dying' which Shakespeare hints, figuratively, is a kind of masturbatory self-rape.\"",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1998 October 29, Seraphina, “Shimon sorry”, in alt.abuse.recovery (Usenet)",
"text": "My ritual self-rape, the little poop trails I left around in my dresser and in the stable, I was trying to be noticed that something was wrong but all I got was silence.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2001, Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, page 18",
"text": "It has been suggested that Lucretia's suicide can be read as analogous to her rape, her stabbing action taking the place of Tarquin's penetration. On Valla's account, this \"self-rape\" is far more reprehensible, both because it results in Lucretia's death and also because it involves her usurpation of the masculine action of stabbing oneself.",
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"ref": "1967, Industrial and Labor Relations Forum - Volume 4, page 25",
"text": "The shipping boom the industry had been riding since the prelude to the war collapsed in 1920. As Europe recovered from its self-rape and rebuilt its industries, the demand for American goods and the ships to carry them was greatly curtailed.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1990, Laurence A. Rickels, Looking After Nietzsche: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty, page 38",
"text": "...as an act of \"self-rape\" by the \"willingly self-conflicting soul that inflicts suffering upon itself, out of pleasure in inflicting suffering\" (GM, II, § 18).",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1990, Linda Christmas, Chopping down the cherry trees: a portrait of Britain in the eighties",
"text": "Perhaps if you put people in shit, they behave like animals. The downtrodden destroying the places they live in is a bit like self-rape, isn't it?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Antonín J. Liehm, Closely Watched Films (Routledge Revivals)",
"text": "It seemed to me that there was a wide-open field for playing up all the unfortunate circumstances surrounding physical violence, rape as punishable by law, but also for attacking the crime of spiritual rape, and, finally, the worst of all, self-rape, violence against one's own self.",
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"Self-destructive activity."
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"(by extension) Self-destructive activity."
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"ref": "2004 March 15, Electric Nachos, “Homophobia”, in rec.arts.fine (Usenet)",
"text": "And wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that psychiatrist's offices would be filled to the ceiling with these self-raping homos pleading for help?",
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"ref": "2011, M. Middeke, Christina Wald, The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern, page 43",
"text": "Satan's pregnancy repeats the theme of melancholy and narcissism: he is 'self-impregnated, or self-raped, making love to himself and then to his daughter, the product of his incestuous mind' (Mulryan 18).",
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"ref": "2012, Nick Tosches, Me and the Devil: A Novel",
"text": "Sweet self-raped Melissa had extracted them from the rest of the verse in a way that gave a very different impression and conjured a very different picture.",
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