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rape rack en · NOUN

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1. (slang) A device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the dairy and meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal.
   • Indeed, it is hard to take seriously the idea that many of the practices of intensive agriculture — the rape rack, the farrowing crate, live export, the use of growth-promoting drugs, genetic manipulation, and so on — are either natural or morally benign. 2014, Lori Gruen, The Ethics of Captivity, →ISBN:
   • The little data we now possess [suggest] that rape-rack experience does not overcome female frigidity — a finding not completely surprising. 1995, Kenneth J. Zucker, Susan J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, →ISBN:
   • ...the queen bee's wings so that she can't leave the colony or to have her artificially inseminated on a bee-sized version of the factory farm “rape rack.” 2013, Malik Kalonji, Mother Earth's Poet, →ISBN:
   • Undoubtedly, milk production for human consumption is violence against the female reproductive system and sanctity of motherhood; thus, the “rape rack” enables and defends a world of rapists. 2013, Kara Davis, Wendy Lee, Defiant Daughters, →ISBN:
   • The first item that caught my attention was the Rape Rack: the machine to which cows are strapped while they are “artificially inseminated” repeatedly until conception. 2015, Until Every Animal is Free, →ISBN:

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