"While numerically one in four women are raped," Sulkowicz explained, "that means that three in four are not. Even fewer people are rapists. Most of this world has not ever seen or been involved with rape, but there were so many supposed experts. I thought, why don't I just show you [what rape looks like]."

Released shortly after her 2015, _Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol—_which translates from French to "this is not a rape"—is a website that displays a trigger warning ("The following text contains allusions to rape") then questions the viewer's reasons for visiting ("Are you searching for proof? Proof of what?") and their predisposed biases ("Do you hate me? If so, how does it feel to hate me?") before playing an eight-minute video. In it, Sulkowicz and an anonymous actor are in a Columbia University dorm room, and engage in consensual kissing, oral, and vaginal sex, before what appears to be non-consensual anal sex. The video stills are jarring and for many, the video is disturbing. Many viewers were left asking: Why? Why did Sulkowicz make this? What is the point?