Until I was about 11 or 12, I thought "rape" meant scratching someone's chest with a garden rake. I had these images in my head of a girl who had been "raped" and had four parallel bloody cuts across her chest and abdomen!
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- I used to think that if a gorilla pounded its chest it liked you.Anon
- i used to believe that a mortgage was a big pirates chest that my mom and dad used to keep in the attic. — lou
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon