 Linda Martín Alcoff, too, emphasizes rape’s specifically sexual harm, arguing in particular that sexual violations can be both identified and criticized on the basis of their damage to victims’ sexual subjectivity. Alcoff contends that “As a concept, sexual subjectivity provides an alternative to the singular focus on the violation of our consent, desire, the capacity for pleasure, or will . . . our central concern with sexual violations should be their inhibiting and transformative effects on sexual subjectivity or our self-making capacities” (2018, 111). Sexual subjectivity, in her view, includes the capacity for sexual agency, but more broadly amounts to “our concernful making relationship to ourselves as sexual subjects” (121). Survivors of sexual violations, Alcoff contends, suffer damage to their ability to develop and live out, in a caring, reflective, and flexible way, their own sexual selfhood. “What is violated,” she writes, “is not a substantive set of normative or normal desires, but the practical activity of caring for the self. Trauma atrophies possibilities” (145).