rape rack

rape rack (plural rape racks)

1. (slang) A device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal. In the livestock industry it's called a "feed rack" or stanchion.
   • 1995, Kenneth J. Zucker, ‎Susan J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, →ISBN:

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

   • 2013, Kara Davis, ‎Wendy Lee, Defiant Daughters, →ISBN:

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

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

   • 2015, Until Every Animal is Free:

     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.