Can a Woman Rape a Man, as Shia LaBoeuf Claimed? The Rabbis Have a Say.

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

Rape and “rape culture” have been at the center of the national conversation in recent months, from the dozens of allegations against Bill Cosby to Rolling Stone’s report on a violent gang rape allegedly committed by fraternity members at the University of Virginia. Yet when the eccentric actor Shia LaBoeuf claimed last week that he had been raped by a woman, in the course of a performance art project in which he invited audience members to do anything they liked to him, the reaction was skeptical if not outright mocking. How, people asked, can a woman rape a man? Doesn’t sexual intercourse require the man to have an erection, which implies that he is a willing participant?

Continue reading "Can a Woman Rape a Man, as Shia LaBoeuf Claimed? The Rabbis Have a Say." at...

From Tablet Magazine