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Originally posted by honeychile
I have a very hard time believing that someone who has been violently raped would have consensual sex with anyone else within a few months, let alone two days! Yes, I know it's possible, but certainly not probable.
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Actually, it's not only quite probable, but quite common. Anybody who has studied/worked with rape victims before knows that two very common reactions for rape victims are either:
1) to become afraid of sex/touch and not engage in it (this is the reaction most people think of) OR
2) to become promiscuous (the theory is that these women are trying to gain the control over the act of sex that they lost when they were raped . . .)
The second reaction is much more common than most people realize.
I have no idea what role that plays in the Kobe case because I haven't been following it closely in a long time, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if she had slept with someone else that soon, and I doubt it would surprise most people who work with rape victims on a regular basis, either.