Chapter 4: detailed description of a violent rape. The victim reports the attack to the police and is dismissed by them, despite her physical injuries, with the suggestion that she must have done something to provoke the attack or is otherwise misrepresenting what happened. As a result of her assault, the woman is forced to suspend her PhD studies (her attacker was one of her professors). This is referred to in passing on occasion throughout the rest of the book. Throughout the book, men repeatedly make derogatory remarks demeaning and sexualising the protagonist. At one point, when the protagonist confesses that she never completed her PhD studies due to being sexually assaulted, the woman she is speaking to reveals that the same thing happened to her, also resulting in the suspension of her further studies. On a few occasions, it is mentioned that church-run boys' homes like the one the male protagonist grew up in are a breeding ground for paedophiles. On at least one occasion it is implied that the protagonist was subjected to one of these priest's advances, fending him off with physical force. Another priest characterises this incident as the perpetrator trying to show the boy affection. Later on in the book, a woman meets with her boss who attempts (unsuccessfully) to sexually assault her as retribution for her "bad behaviour." She deters him with a threat that causes him to have a heart attack.