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Sex scandal?
If someone were violently mugged, would you call that a "financial scandal?" Would a child or woman who has been raped describe their experience as a "scandal," or a criminal assault? While the Schwarzenegger story certainly counts as a "scandal," I have trouble classifying DKS's alleged violent sexual assault as a sex scandal. It's an (alleged) crime. Having sex implies consensuality, and rape is defined by its nonconsensuality. "Scandal" connotes titillation and prurient interest, and one would hope that when faced with the true story of a violently victimized real woman--an immigrant, a working mother, a real and suffering person--the audience's reaction would not be one of titillation. The pairing of these two stories needs to be interrogated to ensure that the language we use to describe rape does not minimize it.