# Roosh V — "How to Stop Rape" > [!quote] "I propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds." > — Roosh V (Daryush Valizadeh), "How to Stop Rape," personal blog, February 2015 ## Context Roosh V, a pickup-artist blogger who became a [[Manosphere]] figurehead before a later turn to nationalism and religion, published this on his blog as an argument that legalizing rape on private property would force women to take responsibility for their own safety. Facing global outrage, he claimed the piece was "a satirical thought experiment" and that neither he nor his followers actually wanted rape legalized. Critics noted the "satire" defense arrived only after the backlash, and that the essay's logic matched the dominance politics of the rest of his work. ## Why this matters The most extreme receipt in this collection — and a documented marker of how far the pickup-artist wing of the manosphere (see [[Pickup Artistry]]) was willing to go in public. Whether read as advocacy or "thought experiment," it expresses the same premise that runs through every entry here, stripped of all euphemism: that men's access to women's bodies is the natural order and women's safety is their own problem. It belongs in the record as the boundary case — the point past which the rhetoric can go no further — and as context for the movement [[Andrew Tate]] later took mainstream. ## Verification - **Reporting:** [Newsweek — "Roosh V's Journey From Pickup Artist to Right-Wing Provocateur"](https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/21/roosh-v-pickup-artist-right-wing-provocateur-509319.html); [The Quint](https://www.thequint.com/gender/women/in-a-world-where-women-fight-for-safety-roosh-v-promotes-rape). - **Status:** Verbatim thesis line from the essay; attribution undisputed. Roosh's "satire" claim is noted above and is itself part of the record, not a correction to the wording. ## Related quotes - [[Andrew Tate - when you're a realist you're sexist]] — the figure who carried the same wing to a mass youth audience. - [[Jordan Peterson - enforced monogamy]] — the respectable intellectual end of the same anxiety about male sexual access. - Featured in [[Misogyny on the Right]].