This is about a kind of human trafficking that is often overlooked as such, as it involves theft more often than it involves sales. The word rape has as its Latin root "raptus"' a word which means "to seize and carry off." From the ancient Greeks forward, in Western cultures, this has been a way of acquiring women without their consent. One of the most telling of the Greek myths is the story of Medusa. She was a beautiful young and chaste woman serving in Athena's Temple as a Priestess. For this job, it is necessary that she remain a virgin. Her beauty and grace inspired lust in the heart of Poseidon, the God of the Sea. He takes Medusa by force, and spoils her virginity. This costs her her job, and ruins her ability to marry, since she is now damaged property.
Athena is furious, and banishes Medusa to an island, turning her hair to snakes and making her so ugly that anyone who sees her turns to stone. Poseidon bears no consequences.
The blame falls on the victim. Her virginity was stolen from her and thus her life was stolen from her.

Art is a mirror of our culture, it also creates a future by reinforcing those ideas and cementing them in aesthetics. Sometimes art will help disintegrate ideas that have been fixed for a very long time haveing grown with the history of the race. Women are shown as commodities in art throughout time. In so much of Western literature there has been a sense that the conquerer has the right of rape. This is referred to as "heroic rape". Yes. That is a name it is given in the history of literature and art. The victor is celebrated by spreading his genes by force. There are many depictions of the rape of the Sabine women; the most well known is by Poussin. This is how the women were acquired to begin the tribe of Romans in the days of Rome's founding by Romulus and Remus. The Sabines were invited to a festival given by the Romans, and the women were literally picked up forcibly and carried away by the Roman men for the purpose of sex and child bearing. Women as commodities. Slavery. This is a form of human trafficking. Today there is a continuation of this buried point of view when we see or hear in any of its many forms, that some how, the woman deserved to be raped, whether because of her appearance, or her whereabouts or even her behavior. "Human Rights must be a reality, not just an idealistic dream.",L. Ron Hubbard. www.YouthforHumanRights.org