It May Have Only Happened Once, but It Is an Eternal Torment
The number of rape cases within the United States is unacceptable, so something must happen to change the number of cases of this monstrous, criminal act. Rape is defined as “. . . a crime in which one person has sexual intercourse with another without that person’s consent” (“Rape”) and in legal terms “…rape is [referred to as] ‘sexual assault’” (“Criminal Penalties”). While some rapes are by a complete stranger, most sexual assaults are by an acquaintance of the victim.
According to the National Sex Offender Public Website (NSPOW), “about 20 million out of 112 million women (18%) in the United States have been raped during their lifetime” (“Facts and Statics”). This number is actually …show more content…
This means sexual assaults on college campuses. It is widely known that college life is full of fraternity parties, which usually involves alcohol (underage drinking included) and lowered moral standards due to the alcohol consumption. While rape is a horrible act in any given case, if a woman has allowed herself to become so inebriated that she is viewed as an easy target then she is partially at fault for the sexual assault that she goes through. But, a woman allowing the chance to become a victim is not the only problem here. In 2015, “a Florida fraternity chapter [was] suspended over a recording where members can be heard using language degrading women and chanting about rape, highlighting the normalcy of rape culture on university campuses” (“Fraternity Sexual Violence”). Rape culture is defined by Emilie Buchwald as “… society normalizing sexualized violence…” (“Rape …show more content…
Statistics done by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) shows that “81% of women [who fall victim to sexual assault] … report significant short-term or long-term impacts such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” (“Facts about”). A victim of sexual assault is never the same after they suffer such an awful act. Being a victim of rape leaves them feeling extremely cautious of others and most are unable to be in any type of intimate encounters without feeling discomfort.
An example of this would be Laura Hilgers’s “…daughter, Willa, [who] was raped by a fellow student at her college… [Willa] did not tell anyone until a year later. Meanwhile, she developed post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, depression, and an addiction to alcohol” (Hilgers, “One Rape”). Willa did not want to press criminal charges “…out of fear of being traumatized again…” (Hilgers, “One Rape”) and she was so badly affected by the horrible event that she ended up leaving
The number of rape cases within the United States is unacceptable, so something must happen to change the number of cases of this monstrous, criminal act. Rape is defined as “. . . a crime in which one person has sexual intercourse with another without that person’s consent” (“Rape”) and in legal terms “…rape is [referred to as] ‘sexual assault’” (“Criminal Penalties”). While some rapes are by a complete stranger, most sexual assaults are by an acquaintance of the victim.
According to the National Sex Offender Public Website (NSPOW), “about 20 million out of 112 million women (18%) in the United States have been raped during their lifetime” (“Facts and Statics”). This number is actually …show more content…
This means sexual assaults on college campuses. It is widely known that college life is full of fraternity parties, which usually involves alcohol (underage drinking included) and lowered moral standards due to the alcohol consumption. While rape is a horrible act in any given case, if a woman has allowed herself to become so inebriated that she is viewed as an easy target then she is partially at fault for the sexual assault that she goes through. But, a woman allowing the chance to become a victim is not the only problem here. In 2015, “a Florida fraternity chapter [was] suspended over a recording where members can be heard using language degrading women and chanting about rape, highlighting the normalcy of rape culture on university campuses” (“Fraternity Sexual Violence”). Rape culture is defined by Emilie Buchwald as “… society normalizing sexualized violence…” (“Rape …show more content…
Statistics done by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) shows that “81% of women [who fall victim to sexual assault] … report significant short-term or long-term impacts such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” (“Facts about”). A victim of sexual assault is never the same after they suffer such an awful act. Being a victim of rape leaves them feeling extremely cautious of others and most are unable to be in any type of intimate encounters without feeling discomfort.
An example of this would be Laura Hilgers’s “…daughter, Willa, [who] was raped by a fellow student at her college… [Willa] did not tell anyone until a year later. Meanwhile, she developed post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, depression, and an addiction to alcohol” (Hilgers, “One Rape”). Willa did not want to press criminal charges “…out of fear of being traumatized again…” (Hilgers, “One Rape”) and she was so badly affected by the horrible event that she ended up leaving