The Armenian Genocide was gender-based from the moment the Ottoman Turks set it in motion. The Union and Progress Party unleashed its genocide program against the Armenians, targeting Armenian men first. If physical elimination prevailed for men, the plan was quite different for women and children. Women and children were exiled to the remote Arabian deserts. Kidnapping, humiliation, starvation, as well as systematic and widespread rape accompanied their relocation. Special rituals accompanied gang rapes of the Armenian women from the very beginning of the deportation. Perpetrators undressed women and girls in front of the community and then raped them on the altar of the church. This "ritual" was used in many places of Western Armenia, as a result of which many women committed suicide as they were not able to bear this "shame". The ritual following the sexual assault was cutting and damaging the women’s bodies. Perpetrators injured sexual organs, cutting the breasts and womb. Many victimized women died as a result of these acts, but those who survived were deprived of any opportunity to feel like a woman, become a mother and/or wife, again. This paper examines the ritualized rape of the Armenian women and their psychological and physical destruction during the genocide. The research was carried out based on the survivors’ testimonies as well as on the reports on the trials of the Young Turkish perpetrators.