Summary

Heidi speaks to the Legionnaire, telling him the story of how, when she was seventeen, she found herself in a situation where she felt she had to have sex with a boy she had barely met, in part because she wanted to be “polite” (46) and in part because she felt she had to, in order to stay alive (see “Quote 6”). She says that she did not ever think that the boy would hurt her, and did not thing so at the moment … still, she felt as though her life was in danger.

Heidi then asks the Legionnaire to read what she calls “those Hammurabi index cards,” and the Legionnaire then reads a series of cards outlining anti-women laws dating back to thousands of years B.C. and progressing to rulings that came down as recently as 2005 (47). Then, once the cards are finished, she introduces...