# Why the big deal over torture?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-big-deal-over-torture/495663 "2009-05-07T16:10:31Z")\
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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> OK, so rape that somehow wouldn’t involve pain is torture, but being smeared in shit isn’t. Why ? Do elaborate.

I think people who are raped will suffer psychologically a lot more than people who are smeared in feces.

Based on what I’ve read about people who’ve been raped.

Do you disagree?

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