Rape fantasy

Rape culture in college has come to the center of headlines in the last few years. Particularly, rape has been highlighted at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where a girl was raped, reported it, and then the administration did not conduct an appropriate investigation and at Columbia University, where a female student was raped and when action was not taken, she carried the mattress she was raped on everywhere throughout her senior year. However, at Old Dominion and SUNY Cortland, two separate…

often on college campuses is the constant alcohol abuse. In the article, “Stopping Campus Rape,” Ross Douthat elaborates one of his main points that assault cases usually involve alcohol and incapacitation, and the offender is usually someone the victim knows. He believes that by changing the drinking age from 18 to 21, students would develop responsibility towards drinking. Douthat is correct when it comes to rape happening in the context that it makes it difficult to prosecute the offender,…

How can you define Rape? I am writing this paper to clear the air for people who struggle with defining what rape is. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. But rape takes on different forms that includes date rape, statutory rape, gang rape, spouse rape and etc. Rape affects each victim differently but they still experience the same trauma. This type of exposure causes a person to suffer emotionally, mentally and physically. The aftermath of rape can cause the…

law in two occasions; Sexual assault and intercourse with a minor. The law states that both sexual assault and intercourse with a minor is wrong. A second of example of the functions of law is how law protects society. In the film, the father of the rape victim is so distraught and outraged that he storms into the courthouse with an assault rifle and murders the two men who raped his daughter. He also accidentally injured a police officer in the shooting. He is then arrested because vigilantism…

changing the law for many reasons including the fact that many 18 year olds have already drank and are now adults, that surprisingly lowering the drinking age in many ways can increase the safety and health of minors, and lastly that the college campus rape dilemma would decrease. A teenager’s 18th birthday is a day…

(Karjane, 1999, p. 2). Sexual assault extends beyond just rape and can be described as any unwanted, non-consensual sexual advances from another person. Victims are…

Assault According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), on average, 293,066 victims are sexually assault or raped. So every 107 seconds another American is sexually assaulted. Summer has the highest rate of rape then the winter and fall, (Rainn). Any one at any age can be sexually assaulted. Sexual violence causes serious health issues. It also has long term effects on the victims mentally and physically. A major problem with sexual abuse is mental…

have already been harmed. In the year 2009, 3.1 million women were raped and that number is growing (Lau). However, those are just the statistics for those who reported their assault, in reality only around 60% of people file police reports on their rapes or assaults and 98% of offenders never spend a single day behind bars (“Statistics”). Pam Stenzel, an abstinence-only speaker, has over the years put out an extensive collection of videos that American health classes commonly show. In one of…

Time Magazine wrote about a sad story of a young boy in the early 1990’s. This young boy, who eventually was rescued, was a part of NAMBLA or North American Man-Boy Love Association. This young boy was used by older men who were a part of NAMBLA and who supported sex between men and boys as acceptable, normal, and healthy. NAMBLA worked underground and its members included various average, normal looking men such as teachers, therapists, physicians, attorneys, and other common occupations.…

enables officers to use the law meant to protect inmates to protect themselves. Along with this, according to U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. (2005), statistics show that the majority of cases involving sexual assault and rape go unprosecuted. The main reason for this happening is that there is never enough physical evidence to corroborate the complaining victim’s stories. Only forty percent of sexual assault cases result in prosecution. (U.S. Department of Justice…