"So you haven't been raped?"

Via Feministing, here's a blog entry from a monogomous but unmarried woman who was denied emergency contraception.

"The problem is that you have to meet the doctor's criteria before he'll dispense it to you."

"Criteria?" I question.

"Well," the nurse sounds decidedly nervous as though what he really wanted to do was hang up the phone completely, "Yes, his criteria. I mean…ummm…well, are you ok? Is there any, ummm….trauma?" he asks me.

My face changes expression and I hurry to explain, "No, no" I said, "No. I haven't been raped. This was consensual sex."

"Oh…" he trails off.

I wait expectantly.

"Well, ummm….*clears throat*…So you haven't been raped?" he asks again.