she argued that the first penetration is always a violation even when
             consented. Now her research was done quite a while ago, in a time when sexual education was limited, however does seem
             part of the problem with penetration is not so much the act itself but how we described it.
             If one looks up "penetrate" in the thesaurus it will list the following synonyms: - barge in, force, gore, impale, invade, puncture,
             trespass, infiltrate. None of these synonyms carry any notions of mutuality or positivity, so quite clearly part the problem with
             penetration could be attributed to using that word to describe it. One alternative is referring to it as the "vagina's embrace or
             grasp of the penis" (Waldby) this would shift penetration from the singularity of the man's active penis and the women's passive
             vagina to the idea of mutual activity. Though changing the word is not going to instigate any change on its own, it will change
             Another problematic aspect of penetration is that it maintains itself as the onl
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