![]() Lust U Always is an unreleased song recorded in 1982 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince.Added to the physical helplessness they felt when their bodies were invaded, comes a much heavier burden of “honour” that has been lost. ![]() Shrouding women in shame in this manner leaves them even more vulnerable to the games of power that their attackers play. So, women’s clothes, their speech, actions and behaviour all automatically get blamed. This is because the conversation almost immediately turns on the woman victim, and what she may or may not have done to encourage this lust towards her. The lust narrative actually works to increase this power that they derive from rape. But it does mean that they carry out the act not because of any uncontrollable urges of sexual desire, but because rape makes them feel power over their victims. This is not to deny that rapists derive sexual pleasure from the act of rape. It has been said hundreds of times before by representatives of women’s movements across the world that rape is a violence born from power and not desire. Take away the lust narrative, and there is no proper lens in which to explain this action. What is crucially missing in the court’s narrative of this incident is why these men and others in riot and conflict situations resort to raping women between a series of murders. In Bilkis’s case, on the other hand, the rape of her and her relatives receives only minimal mention in the most general terms.Īnd although both sets of convicts were adjudged not to be hardened criminals, Jyothi’s killers were condemned vociferously and sentenced to death, while Bilkis’s rapists were described as men driven to a fury in the aftermath of the Godhra train burning incident, and the court refused to sentence them to death on grounds that the case would not count as the rarest of the rare. ![]() ![]() In the latter, the judges go into horrifying detail of the minutiae of the physical torture Jyothi Singh was put through. One of the few cases to take account of the sexual violence faced by women during the riots, and to indict police for trying to bury the case, there’s a lot to be praised in the verdict.īut it’s also very instructive when compared to the Nirbhaya verdict. The Maharashtra case related to the gangrape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano and two of her relatives, and the murder of 14 people including Bilkis’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, during the 2002 riots. In making this assumption, the judgement even disregards the child’s own statement that, “I love Papa but he should not hurt me,” on the grounds that since the child loves and misses her father, she couldn’t have been abused by him. Then what was the necessity for the accused to have sexually abuse on his own child,” the judgement says. ![]() “It is undisputed that the accused and the complainant were having regular sexual intercourse. Most shockingly, the judgement claimed that since Pascal and his wife were having regular sexual intercourse, he wouldn’t rape his daughter. In the former, what was ostensibly the trial of former French diplomat Pascal Mazurier for allegedly raping his own daughter turned into an extended questioning of his estranged wife on her morality and fitness as a mother. If you find yourself shaking your head skeptically at these statements, take a look at two recent judgements delivered by a Karnataka Sessions Court and the Bombay High Court. ![]()
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