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rapeable

rapeable

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Adjective

rapeable (comparative more rapeable, superlative most rapeable)

  1. Alternative spelling of rapable
    • 2000, Joseph Valente, Quare Joyce (page 167)
      [] the nonresistance of the fruit signaling the passive and somatic nature of Stephen's sense of himself as a rapeable body.
    • 2013, Nicola Gavey, Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape (page 216)
      As I noted in Chapter 7, Sharon Marcus and others have argued that reiterations of representations of women as passive and vulnerable and men as sexually aggressive may in fact actually render women's bodies more rapeable []

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