Mind Rape is Still Rape
Trigger warning: discussion of rape, assault and medical assault.
Becca and Ryan discuss how Star Trek handles the stories of physical and psychic assault on Deanna Troi, Seven of Nine, and T’Pol, with widely varying degrees of success. We look at The Next Generation episode “Violations,” (S5:E12), Voyager episode “Retrospect,” (S4:E17), and Enterprise episode “Fusion,” (S1:E17).
National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673.
RAINN: The Nation’s Largest Anti-Sexual Violence Organization
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CITATIONS
TNG "Violations"
Voyager "Retrospect"
Enterprise "Fusion"
“False Memory Syndrome”
Stop Calling it "False Memory Syndrome"
Wikipedia: False Memory Syndrome
Low incidence of False Rape Accusations
Almost No One Is Falsely Accused of Rape
False Allegations of Sexual Assualt: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases
Wikipedia: False Accusations of Rape
Pelvic Exams Routine on Unconscious Women
Medical Students Regularly Practice Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Patients. Should They?
Med Students Are Doing Vaginal Exams on Unconscious, Non-Consenting Patients (VICE June 2019)
Tort Law
Operating on the wrong ear is assault and battery
"If an operation is performed on a patient without that patient's consent, and the circumstances were not such as to justify its performance without consent, that operation constitutes an assault and battery." Holding summary via Wikipedia.
"every person has a right to complete immunity of his person from physical interference of others, except in so far as contact may be necessary under the general doctrine of privilege; and any unauthorized touching of the person of another, except it be in the spirit of pleasantry, constitutes an assault and battery." Mohr v. Williams, 104 N.W. 12 (Minn. 1905)
