rape rack

English

Noun

rape rack (plural rape racks)

1. (slang) A device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal. In the livestock industry it is called a feed rack or stanchion.
   • 1995, Kenneth J. Zucker, Susan J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, →ISBN:

     The little data we now possess [suggest] that rape-rack experience does not overcome female frigidity — a finding not completely surprising.

   • 2013, Kara Davis, Wendy Lee, Defiant Daughters, →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, Malik Kalonji, Mother Earth's Poet, →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.”

   • 2014, Lori Gruen, The Ethics of Captivity, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2015, Until Every Animal is Free, →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.