Ghanaian actor, writer and producer, Lydia Forson, also known as Miss Forson, has reiterated that most people limit rape to gender, posing females as the victims every time.
Interviewed by guest presenter, Sister Derby on the special birthday edition of the Late Nite Celebrity Show, she opinionated that people always limit rape to gender, thinking it is only done to females but a lot of boys have been molested as well and this is barely talked about because of how we view sex as something men enjoy and women endure.
‘’A majority of men have been molested. They just don’t know or understand that they were molested because when a boy is molested at age 10, 12, 13, to his peers, he is cool because they see it as him sleeping with an older woman so its sex’’, she observed. Basically, our whole idea and conversation on sex shapes how these things come about.
Further talking about the recent ‘Sex for grades’ issue, she commented that people tend to focus on insignificant details and brush off the actual issue at hand because it exposes us and we want to get away with it. People are focusing on the fact that there was no sex in the video when they should be asking questions like ‘Is this something that is happening?’ and ‘if it does, what are we doing about it?’ She concluded that if we really cared, we should dig deeper into this issue and uproot it for our own selves and for the benefit of our chidren, both born and unborn.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye