The Effect Of Sexual Assault On College Campus

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Sexual assault is a serious issue in the United States. Sexual assault is someone who is forced to have any time of sexual contact with the other person without consent. Most people don't take sexual assault serious, for the most part anyone can say, “Oh they could've done something, its not like they don't have any strength to protect themselves.” but in reality most women aren't as strong as men. Some women are sometimes titled as sluts, whores, etc but not knowing the reality of how sometimes some men can just take advantage of a women. In this paper, I will describe the importance of how women get treated through sexual assault on college campus. In a journal that I’ve read, statistics show that “every two minutes in the United States,

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