Let us look at some stories of the very Bible. It’s really exciting to read.

The Levite’s concubine and men of Gibeah.

Victim: the nameless concubine of the anonymous Levite (man from the tribe of Levi) from Ephraim. She traveled around the country together with her husband (yes, just like nowdays in those days women had problems with making the relationship official). Actually she left him 4 months ago and returned to her mother. But he missed her, went after her and convinced her to return. Now they were going back to his house.

Perpetrators: men of Gibeah, members of the Tribe of Benjamin.

The Levite and his Concubine Invited to Lodge at Gibeah by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. 1658.

Crime: Levite and his girlfriend found a roof for the night in this city in the house of his compatriot. As it turns out, going visiting at that time was dangerous: in the evening the gang of hoodlums surrounded the houseand and started pounding on the door. They demanded to surrender the Levite, so that they could have sex with him. It’s unlikely that he was an angelic beauty, which means that people were just bored and wanted a new guy.

The host went out to them and said, “No, my brothers, please don’t act terribly to this man who came to my house; don’t do this abomination”.
And being a loving father he added,
“Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine let me bring them out. Degrade them and do to them what you wish, but to this man, don’t do this abominable thing!”

Damn it!
Can you see how they value your lives in the patriarchal society, girls?

Ephraim by Francesco Hayez. 1842-1844.

Note, however, that men of Gibeah, in contrast to Sodomists, didn’t stand their ground being completely bisexual.
They did not even had time to confer and respond to the offer when the Levit (in panic fear of his anal virginity) grabbed his concubine and pushed her out the door.

Men raped and abused her all through the night until the moring.
(By the way, they did not demand the daughter of the host – they didn’t want to completely ruin the relationship with him, he hadn’t yet chipped in for a car parking barrier).

Then they let her go. She crawled back to the door of the house where her beloved slept and died there.
When it was light her husband opened the door, drank coffee and was all set to go on his way (filthy beast, eh?) when he saw a the corpse liyng right on the doorstep with her hands outstretched towards the threshold.

Death of the Levite’s Concubine by Willem Bartsius.1638.

Retaliation: Once home, this deeply unsympathetic Levit took her body into his house, then he picked up a knife and cut her into twelve separate pieces (necrophile, isn’t he?). He then sent the twelve pieces to the twelve separate tribal territories of Israel, to express his outrage at what had happened.
He appealed to the moral, conscience and honor of the people.

This led to a massive battle against the Benjaminites, where the tribe is nearly wiped out (all men are massacred, all women are raped , etc …)

The Levite of Ephraim and His Dead Wife by J.J.Henner. 1898.