More than 80 women victims of sexist violence have been murdered so far this year. He 25N It is the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women. To make this problem visible we have spoken with several of them. Women who have suffered sexist violence firsthand. And women who have also done it with an added difficulty: alcoholism.
In Spain they are reported 14 rapes a day and 55 sexual assaults. A rape every two hours and more than two attacks per hour. A report of the World Health Organization (WHO) points out that the alcohol is a risk factor common in cases of sexual violence.
Silvia She started using at the age of 42 and unlike most women who are sick alcoholics, she used to do it on the street. His consumption pattern exposed him a lot. “I entered a kind of state of lethargy, of unconsciousness, and that made me very vulnerable towards men. I have experienced everything from touching to “group rape”account.
Toni He explains that in his case it was the opposite. She had already been suffering psychological abuse from her husband for a long time and alcohol consumption became her escape route to tolerate that violence. “He told me: Whore, you’re bitching all day. Even though we did everything together,” he laments. Toñi says that she was a beer drinker at home and that she did it when she sensed that she was going to have a quarrel with her ex-husband.
The case of Maria and Ann It was similar, due to complicated family situations of great loneliness or in which the husband spends a lot of time away from home, alcohol becomes his companion in mourning. However, its consumption becomes the easy insult for his ex-partners. “bad motheryou don’t take care of your children…” are some of the words that her ex-husband addressed to Ana.
Silvia says that she had to move to another city. He now lives in Alcobendas, because one of his ex-partners threatened to kill him. She explains how one night, after leaving him, she came home, He raped her, beat her and destroyed her house. “After that, my son called him to ask him for an account and what he told him was that I was the neighborhood whore and the neighborhood drunk, That’s the image he had of me.”
All of them have been abstinent for several years and go to therapy every week. Silvia, Ana, María, Toñi and Maite agree that it is a hard path, but most rewarding. They talk about sorority and how the association they are in has helped them be reborn.
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