 The humiliation and shame often experienced by rape victims are predictable results of experiencing total subjugation and the intimate loss of control of one’s body. These reactions—not to mention victims’ feelings of contamination, of having been defiled or desecrated—are often exacerbated by cultural judgments of raped women as dirty and impure, or as “damaged goods.” In some cultures, these ideas are so powerful that a woman who is raped (or who has consensual illicit sex) is thought to bring shame on her entire family; such women sometimes become the victims of so-called “honor killings” at the hands of male relatives (Banerjee 2003, Baxi et al. 2006, Ruggi 1998).