Damned right that paganism has nothing to do with rape. Some of the Celtic cultures gave equal rights to women and spurned capital punishment. Backward eh? Pagan cultures have also embraced pacifism. The humanitarianism or otherwise of a society has nothing to do with its age. Larry is asking an important question here though. Why is there this hideous attitude that the victim is shamed by the crime? We know that Bille Holliday was sent to reform school for being a rape victim. In the Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus kills his daughter Lavinia because he feels she has been dishonoured by rape.(Don't we really feel for his hurt pride...) The attitude has emerged in cultures old and new.