The case of Brittany Higgins has brought me into a number of conversations about the way the criminal justice system deals with those who have rape and sexual assault allegations, and it is impossible for me to approach the issue without talking about my own experience.

Bringing personal experience into a discussion on the criminal prosecution of rapists is not like talking about the time you got done for DD after the Christmas party in 1996, it’s not raised in polite company, because rape is difficult to talk about and the politics of rape is intimately intertwined with the kind of...