"If the occurrence of rape were audible, its decibel level equal to its frequency, it would overpower

our days and nights, interrupt our meals, our bedtime stories, howl behind our love-making, an 

insistent jackhammer of distress. We would demand an end to it. And if we failed to locate its 

source, we would condemn the whole structure. We would refuse to live under such conditions."
--

Patricia Weaver Francisco