rape rack

plural rape racks

1. slangA device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the dairy and meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal.

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

   1995, Kenneth J. Zucker, Susan J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, →ISBN

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   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, Kara Davis, Wendy Lee, Defiant Daughters, →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.”

   2013, Malik Kalonji, Mother Earth's Poet, →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.

   2014, Lori Gruen, The Ethics of Captivity, →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.

   2015, Until Every Animal is Free, →ISBN