When a man goes on a killing rampage through New York, the lead FBI agent calls upon the SVU to get information from the suspect’s last known contact – a prostitute who had been involved in one of Benson’s old cases.Free Download Video Law & Order: SVU 22th July 2012 Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Law & Order: SVU Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.As the detectives work with her to track down the killer, they find themselves drawn into her world and must fight to save her life.This hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC's "Law & Order" brand chronicles the life and crimes of the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department, the elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes.My issues lie in the fact that at no point in the episode is bondage not treated like something a woman should be ashamed of enjoying. Eventually it was revealed that the victim didn’t actually write the book, and that the fantasies contained within were really her professor’s.
You could see hope on the faces of the squad and the new ADA, like it would be so much easier to prove rape if the victim hadn’t written a book about women enjoying kinky sex.
In fact, in the preparation for the trial, Munch and Finn actually went to interview the girl’s former partners, to find out if she’d been a part of the lifestyle she seemingly wrote about…and everyone was surprised that she hadn’t…as if it wasn’t possible to write about bondage without doing it. By that same token, they would also have to assume that JK Rowling battles dark wizards in her spare time. It’s ridiculous.
The whole reason for the professor allowing her student to publish her book was because the professor knew she’d be laughed right out of the world of academia if she’d published under her own name.
Even when the secret came out and she took the stand in her student’s defense, she never looked the defense in the eye and said that writing about bondage or flirting on TV to sell books was not an invitation to be raped. She just sat there, still ashamed that she’d dared to put her sexual preferences on paper.
It’s like we’ve finally reached a point in our society where we’re willing to let women enjoy sex…as long as it’s straight-forward, missionary position, no-kink sex. Anything else and it’s suddenly all right again to mock and shame them.
If you need proof of this, just look at the backlash against 50 Shades or the way romance novels have been treated throughout history, but most especially in the past forty to fifty years. A book that is entirely about a woman having and enjoying sex or even just falling in love is dismissed as being fluff or ridiculed for being implausible…even by other women!!
In the end, the ADA managed to get a conviction, but he had to go to extremes to prove his point, not to mention that most rapists are way too clever to freak out in the courtroom like that. I feel like the writers must have been so proud of themselves for showing that even a man who raped a woman he thought was into bondage could be convicted, but all they really did was show women, yet again, that society still thinks that only a certain kind of girl can be raped and everyone else is asking for it.
This is the BEST show! Mariska Hargitay (Detective Olivia Benson) and Christopher Meloni (Detective Elliot Stabler) are great for the 2 parts and work so well together. The cases are based on real cases and if I didn't know they are all actors i'd say it IS real.
The show is my inspiration for wanting to join the NYPD sex crimes. I recently found out about sex crimes in my home town (San Diego, CA). I want to intern there before I go to NYC and join.