Essays About Rape

Kevin Perez Professor Daylen Elosegui Ethics PHI 1600 14 May 2017 Pregnancy and birth after rape Being pregnant is a blessing for almost all woman, but what happens if a woman results pregnant after being raped. This is a polemic and at the same time very sensitive topic. “About 32,000 pregnancies result from sexual assaults or rape every year in the United States.” (HRF) The fact that a person is raped it’s catastrophic, but when the victim results pregnant after such a traumatic event is…

The Hunting Ground, is a documentary film about rape and sexual assault on college campuses. The purpose of the film is to arouse public support for victims of sexual assault. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark are the two rape survivors that are the main focus of the movie. These two women, despite all that they had to go through at the school, inspired the initiation for the attainment of Title IX investigations, which forces colleges and…

screeching halt. Sexual assault has been prevalent in contemporary society, forcing the topic to be embedded into the consciousness of Americans. Before I began this journey of discovery, I thought I could grasp the concept and the implications of the rape culture in society. But that confidence has eroded, as I have been thrown into confusion; the waters have cleared revealing only a muddy bottom. Before I began my trek across the muddy river of conflicting and contradicting opinions, I decided…

There are many criminal activities that had been going on throughout the history. For instance the act of murder and perhaps rape were made by Jesse Matthew recently, he raped and killed multiple women. Matthew is currently awaiting for trial in the killings of two college students. Murder and rape cases not only affects the victim’s family, but the local community also. According to Jesse Matthew’s ex girlfriend, she wrote a letter to defend him by stating that he was sexually molested as a…

In the case of the People v. Turner, Brock Turner was charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of an unconscious 23-year old woman. Turner was depicted by the media as an “all-American swimmer,” whereas the victim of the assault was described as an “unconscious, intoxicated woman,” implying that her intoxication excused her assault (Koren, 2016). In a letter asking for leniency from the judge presiding the case, Turner's father stated that his son should not have to go to prison “for…

the Indian Government for women assault. In Delhi, which is the capital of India, where a 23-year-old women got raped and murdered. There were so many rallies and movements occurred across India for this particular rape incident which happened in Delhi. Coming to the details of the rape incident. They gave her name as Nirbhaya. She was a medical student and had a dream to become a doctor to serve poor people. And she was from a remote area where her father worked as a baggage loader in Delhi…

Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape. There are many different causes for someone to become a sexual offender, and there are many “triggers” that could set off a sexual offender. “They are opportunists, who lack feelings for another and who have an antisocial personality disorder” (What…

Prostitution is commonly used to refer to haggling of sexual services in order to a form a social interaction that is concurrently economic and sexual. Through this it makes prostitution a difficult cultural category, as society’s economic and sexual relations are systemized and conceptualized in divergent ways. According to Kingsley Davis (1937), Prostitution is defined as largely economical and providing a function through quick impersonal sexual regalement that does not involve individual…

the assertion that rape is an issue of violence and control, not sex. To avoid the critique that they are against sex, individuals who opposed sexual violation renamed “as violent those abuses that have been seen to be sexual (MacKinnon, 1987). MacKinnon argues that formulating rape as a crime of violence, not sex, in an attempt to be objective, erases the fact that women have a specific perspective on rape. Asserting that rape is an issue of violence leads us to distinguish rape from…

It was before Bernardo had met Homolka when he started to rape woman. His first act was in May of 1987 (CBC News, 2010). This was the start of Bernardo’s rapes that would occur in Scarborough, Ontario, which eventually lead to the nickname of the ‘Scarborough Rapist’. It was this new nickname that police had warned the public with in order to help find whoever was committing these gruesome acts. It is truly hard to say how many rape attacks Bernardo had committed since there are still some cases…