Rape is not just sex without consent. Even if consent is given out of fear or greed, the act should still be called rape. And this is happening everywhere. Human beings can behave far better—or far worse—than animals. Animals mate for reproduction, but rape, from the rapist’s perspective, is recreation or entertainment for pleasure.
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Questioner: Namaste, Acharya Ji. Acharya Ji, I wanted to bring this case to this forum and discuss it with you. It's about a woman; her name is Gisèle Pelicot. She's from France, and she's 72 years old now.
She's in a public trial against her husband because they were married for 50 years, and it was a wonderful marriage in her own understanding—until her husband was reported for taking upskirt images of two women out in the open. That opened up essentially his media images in his phone. There, he was drugging his wife for 10 years, and at least 72 men raped her. So, her husband was calling men and he was allowing them to rape his own wife. This guy—her husband—was filming it or taking images.
At this age, when she's 72, she's quite old, in her vulnerable stage, but still, she has chosen to stand up, to face these ugly facts and she's taking it to court and has made it a public trial so that everyone can see.
I just wanted to discuss this, and I wish that it could have been in Hindi also because I come from India. We know that we are taught so deeply that we have to preserve the image of our relatives. We tend to attach ourselves to our close ones—whether it's our father, husband, brother, or whosoever—and we just wrap their ugly facts of our lives and never stand up. So, I just wanted you to take this up and discuss it.
