A recent CNN International investigation exposed a site pornographic film that has served as a tutorial for men to learn how to sedate and rape their wives and girlfriends – just as Dominique Pelicot did to his wife for years.
Under the “eye check” section on the page motherless.comthousands of videos with pornographic content associated with sleep were sent by users who not only consume this type of content, but who commit this crime: they drug their wives or girlfriends, confirm that they are unconscious, rape them and, in the end, publish the video in which they show how others can do it. Millions of visits reveal the extent of the crime and the normalization of behavior for which the adjective heinous seems reductive. Us chats – CNN managed to infiltrate and for months monitored the activity, even managing to identify some of the users – there were even those who sold “sleeping liquid”, and those who shared an entire instruction manual so that other men could rape their unconscious women.
The world, so shocked by the Gisèle Pelicot case, now seems asleep even when a case of this size is revealed. But beyond a numbness that affects us all – eventually we are all victims of the psychic numbness that DN already wrote about here, when the USA attacked Iran – there is something that we need to urgently reflect on: what kind of men, human beings, are these, who not only commit crimes but also expose them to communities of admirers? And what message do we – parents, regulators, police, judges – get away with if we continue to let this kind of behavior go unpunished?
To the discussion about the lack of regulation of online content, it is urgent to add another: that of what kind of society we are building when we stop being outraged when we discover that thousands (thousands!) of men rape their women for the sole pleasure of knowing that they are powerless before their will.
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