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South Africa gangs using rape to 'cure' lesbians

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JOHANNESBURG - Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will "cure" the women's sexual orientation, an aid agency said Friday.

NGO ActionAid said in a report titled "Hate Crimes: the rise of corrective rape in South Africa" lesbians were increasingly at risk of rape, particularly in South African townships where homosexuality is largely taboo.

South Africa has one of the world's most progressive constitutions and became the first country in Africa to allow gay marriage in 2006, but homosexuality is still widely frowned upon and same-sex unions are often decried as "un-African."

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  • added March 13, 2009

46 comments // South Africa gangs using rape to 'cure' lesbians

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    Yeah, because being raped by men will make ANY lesbian want to go straight. -_-

    calm_incense
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    lol... wtf

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    wow, fuckin ignorant shit.

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    specialk82
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    they allso beleive that rapeing a virgin will cure aids.
    holy s--t when did it get so f-ing backwards there?
    who could have misguided them that far?

    idealist
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    This is just an excuse, Johannesburg is the city with more rapes per day in the world, these gang members are just saying this to (horrendously) justify his actions to themselves.

    el_chivo
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    wow i'm sure it's extremely effective...

    not

    jacocoll
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    Disgusting.

    St_Alia_10191
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    Governments can outrun their populace in terms of progressiveness. We really take for granted the reforms feminists brought to our societal perspective.

    Still, I would consider a crime like that especially heinous. They should receive special penalties. I hope SA doesn't have a "cruel and unusual" punishment clause.

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    Saladin
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    What the hell happened those people ? They're getting disgusting and more ignorant in comparison with that they should be more reasonable. Who did misguided them so far ? Well some sages should help them, or they are going to have themselves fucked by donkeys...

    atarikg
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    In Africa, people rape indiscriminately. They also use rape as a weapon of war. So in the end, it's just another excuse to sexually assault women... It's not like rape wouldn't take place if they weren't lesbians.

    SANMedia
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    very disturbing

    Ajojo
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    I hope this doesn't give any of our religious nuts ideas about doing the same thing here.

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    jahbini
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    I'm disturbed greatly by this, I just don't know what to say.

    iettam
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    Yo mur master puss,saik my piel....you bastards.

    Tayllerand
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    this angers the feminist in me and im a man. but it angers me as a human being even more.

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    lukewarmenthusiasm
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    So, to get laid, a man in South Africa only needs to call himself gay. Simple enough.

    PROYECTOarismuca
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    This is easily one of the most horrible things I have ever heard.

    bucketoftruth
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    wow... don't these people have mothers or sisters, or even daughters?

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    dariusvons
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    This is very disturbing reminds me of the cutting off of arms of kids vaccinated by us just to show nothing good can come from the west that is good. The horror of it all, how fucking sick are these people.

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    kennymotown
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    It sometimes amazes me, the things we humans do to each other. Then other times, I'm sadly not surprised.

    robynviola
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    I have to say, I'm really thrown off by the responses in which South Africans are referred to as "those people" and "they" (the poor English used in many of these comments is quite exhausting to read through as well).

    It worries me when respondents fail to recognize that this kind of thing happens daily in other countries, even the "developed" ones, but in slightly less staggering numbers.

    ladybee
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    I have a strange feeling that being raped by women in an effort to cure me is in my future...

    JStation
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    this article made me cry. this is sick.

    Found_Avenue
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    sickos!

    alexandrek
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    I find it peculiar that the headline seems to suggest that "gangs" are behind this, but then in the opening sentence reveals the term "gangs" to signify "group" or "mob."

    NOT that this makes it OK. This story is terrifying. Rape has been used quite frequently for political means. During the genocide in Rwanda, Hutu militias used rape a means of ethnic cleansing of the Tutsis.

    MissG
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