I think we all get obsessive about it because we are either (1) unlikely to ever experience it or (2) have already experienced it and are looking to process it.
Rape is powerful, even when the force is consensual. Most of us don't get to live out those fantasies, but even when we do it is scary on a lot of levels. Will I get hurt? Will I hurt her? How far is too far? etc.
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Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves
were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this guilt nevertheless did not exist.
Thus it is with all guilt.
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