Another day, another TV heroine brutalised: Why does television drama need so much rape and evisceration?

Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 07:01 in Psychology & Sociology

There are times, after a long day's work, when I'd rather not see a woman tied to a bedpost, her skirt fetchingly hitched up around her thighs, being slowly strangled to death. Neither, if I'm honest, do I relish the sight of 19th-century prostitutes lying prone in east London  …

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