When I was young I once read statistics about rape in a magazine, and didn't know what the word meant. When I asked my dad, he said it was "when a man attacks a woman." It made sense to me that this was a worse crime than simple assault, and deserved a separate name.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- I thought that heart attacks were actually "hard attacks". Anon
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh