Even informed brides experience defloration as a form of rape

Evidence

There is an obscene paradox in the superimposing of a pompous ceremony on a brutally real animal function. The wedding presents its universal and abstract meaning: a man and a woman are united publicly according to symbolic rites; but in the secrecy of the bed it is concrete and singular individuals who confront each other face-to-face, and all gazes turn away from their embraces. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1162 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wedding-night shock is common among sexually ignorant young brides — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1164; Promiscuous defloration without deep arousal leaves women sexually uninitiated — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 986; Wedding ceremony abstracts away the concrete reality of the sexual act — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1162 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wedding ceremony abstracts away the concrete reality of the sexual act #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1162
• Feminist reframing of rape changed judicial punitiveness #expands (0.70)