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Sex Betrayal and Psychopathic Pleasure
The New Wave of Sexual Violence Nobody Wants to Talk About
“One day, while cleaning myself after sex, I found the condom intact in the bathroom. I trembled. Nausea. My boyfriend of two years had deceived me in the worst possible way. At that moment, I realized I had been sharing my bed with a stranger. A rapist wearing the mask of love.”
The first time I heard about stealthing was at a party. Between glasses of wine and laughter, a friend confessed, almost in a whisper, how she discovered her partner had removed the condom midway through the act. The silence that followed was deafening.
One by one, other voices emerged from the comfortable darkness of our intimate circle. Different stories, same ending: betrayal in its cruelest form.
The scariest part?
The normalcy with which they spoke about it, as if it were just another risk of being a woman in the 21st century.
Psychopaths don’t always use knives or weapons. Sometimes, they use charming smiles and our trust as tools of destruction.
That amazing man you met on Tinder?
The one who made you feel special, safe, desired? He might be the same one who deliberately chooses to violate your bodily autonomy because “it…
