Published in Human Parts·Apr 10, 2019Member-onlyKickboxing, Rape, and the Myth of Self-DefenseWhen I was raped at age 16, I did not fight back. I knew how, yet all of me forgot. — I started kickboxing at age 14, long before I was raped. It was the culmination of years of desperate wanting, of needing to make my body into something good. When I was a child, I had strange idols. Bruce Lee. Chuck Norris. Jean-Claude Van Damme. Which is to say, I…Rape8 min readRape8 min read
