I had been learning how to play rugby I knew how to tackle. I could kick them in the shins, I thought, I could kick them in the balls.
I kept breaking away and trying to outrun them. Their legs were longer, they were stronger, and there were two of them. I broke off and ran away from them-faster this time, but they kept up. I whirled around to face them but they grabbed at my breasts. I had never seen it like this.Īs I ran, I heard footsteps that got louder - two men, running directly behind me. The clouds cleared by late afternoon, but when I arrived the park was empty. There was a park and families came to enjoy the sunset in the evenings. When I was twenty, I went running on a bike path along a river in the city where I was a student. Some guys don’t listen to locker room banter. I chose well and never had to deal with the latter. Would he put a blanket over me and be kind, would he push me aside in disgust or anger at not getting what he wanted, or would he take the opportunity to go up my shirt or down my pants? I needed to know if I could trust him when no one was looking. If a guy showed interest and seemed safe and we started dating, I pretended to get drunk and pass out, just to see what he might do. There was nothing I could do to avoid that. I didn’t drink alcohol in high school it would have made me feel too vulnerable.īut simply being a woman made me vulnerable. I started wearing my brother’s clothes-baggy sweatshirts and jeans so big I had to roll down the waistband to keep them up. I ran into that boy at a Christmas party decades later. But I thought he wanted to be my boyfriend.
Maybe I shouldn’t have let him hold my hand. He looked at me with a blank face and dead eyes. The next day I tried to talk to him, to tell him what had happened wasn't okay.
Perhaps his ears were too full of locker room banter. I said, “No.” I said, “Stop.” I tried pushing him away. When I was fifteen I was date raped at summer camp by a boy I had a crush on. I pretended I was okay, but I tried to kill myself not long after that. How had this happened? Had he started listening to locker room banter? This man had known me since I was nine - he had two daughters. It took twenty years and much therapy before I could tell her the full story, before I could admit it even to myself. I told my mother only that he had propositioned me, not anything else. I went to school the next day, sitting in class like nothing happened. He told me it was “safe” to have sex with him - he’d had a vasectomy and wouldn’t get me pregnant. He sat on my bed, ran his hand under the covers and put his fingers up inside me. My mother’s boyfriend came into my room to say goodnight. The second time I was kissed I was twelve or thirteen. I was reading Beverly Cleary books and wishing I could be a horse.ĭo you think he had been listening to locker room banter? I don’t know why he thought he could do this. He lifted me up by my armpits, sat me on the kitchen counter, leaned over me and slid his tongue into my mouth. The first man who kissed me when I didn’t want him to was the boyfriend of my babysitter. 11, 2014.The Record's Jeannie Yandel speaks with Tara Weaver about her experiences with sexual assault. In addition to stripping away the last vestiges of his purity and flashing his huge junk whenever possible, Jonas is also busy promoting his new self-titled solo album due in stores Nov. And in terms of the show, that’s tough to watch.” “When your sex life is not healthy you resort to other things as an outlet. “ Sex is such an important part of a healthy life, in the sense that it’s such an intrinsic part of who you are,” he said in the December 2014 issue of Attitude magazine. “Another little thing is my character has a big story line… revolving around his sexuality.” “Yeah, there was like three or four sex scenes,” he said. Jonas plays a horny MMA fighter in the series, and during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live he hinted that we might even see some more of his obvious courting of the gay community. Nick Jonas gifts the world with this crotch-grabbing tutorial We took screen shots for your viewing pleasure, but you can see the video clips at Gawker.
Jonas has some ridiculously raunchy scenes in the new DirecTV Audience Network series Kingdom, and they definitely are not anything a JoBro of a decade ago could ever have imagined himself in.Ĭlips of one such scene show the former pop star getting down and dirty with a woman - but apparently he’s not that into her, because he winds up faking his orgasm. We’re pretty sure Nick Jonas flushed his purity ring down the toilet, because his latest gig is about as far from virginal as you can get.