Brutal first experiences are common across all classes, not only the poor.

Evidence

It is not uncommon that the young girl’s first experience is a real rape and that man’s behavior is odiously brutal; particularly in the countryside, where customs are harsh, it often happens that a young peasant woman, half-consenting, half-outraged, in shame and fright, loses her virginity at the bottom of some ditch. What is in any case extremely frequent in all societies and classes is that the virgin is rushed by an egotistical lover seeking his own pleasure quickly, or by a husband convinced of his conjugal rights who takes his wife’s resistance as an insult, to the point of becoming furious if the defloration is difficult. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 967

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘husband convinced of his conjugal rights’ pattern echoes what later feminist legal theory calls marital rape exception.