At least you weren't a virgin. Then, just over a month ago, just as funding for the ads was being finalized, the same paper ran verbatim dialogue from Mardi Gras captured by photojournalist Leonard Davis. Packs of young men groped young women, stripping off their clothes, pulling their hair and forcing them down. Meanwhile, more than a few young women pulled off their own clothes, voluntarily flashing their breasts, some exposing other parts of themselves to the crowd. But she may see and even feel them in memory for a long time to come if forced sexual contact followed.
Police say assaults did happen.
They still hope victims will come forward. And the King County Sexual Assault crisis line remains open, waiting for the calls. For more than 20 years she has listened to assorted stories of rape and measured the incremental progress achieved in the attitudes of police and the public. Yes, there has been progress. Few today doubt that a married woman can be raped by her husband.