Disturbing Instagram video involving sexualized abuse of cockroaches triggered me as a survivor of sexual abuse
I got interested in cockroaches today and searched for them on Instagram. The second or third video I came across disturbed me so much. There was a man who had built some kind of “rape machine” using toothpicks. He even coated the toothpicks with some kind of lube beforehand and then used the machine to penetrate cockroaches that were being held in place. There was no content warning at all.
I know they’re “just” cockroaches but how disturbing is that? Men rape everything… women, children, babies, other men, dead bodies, animals - even when it’s anatomically impossible they find ways. I’ve experienced sexual abuse myself and I feel so tense right now. It’s already been a few hours but my heart is still pounding. I don‘t know what to do.