Rape

of “date rape.” Rape is when a person is forced to have vaginal, anal, and/or oral sex without consent. On Urban Dictionary, a dictionary based and edited by society, the term date rape is defined as, “you spike a target 's drink with a sedative drug, usually GHB or Rohypnol, and wait for them to become affected and semi-unconscious” (“Date rape,” 2005). The concrete definition suggests that “date rape” is when the victim is raped by an individual he/she is acquainted with (“Date Rape,” n.d) .…

The original purpose of rape culture was to help society understand the incorrect approach to a subject as sensitive as rape. Rape culture, however, did not receive much attention until 2005. Before then, it was nothing more than an impractical idea in the back of people’s minds. Now, we have discovered how common the topic has become. Recently, however, the original intentions behind introducing rape culture to the public have been neglected. Rape culture has been stated as a “Lie.”…

Every two minutes in America someone is being sexually assaulted. Every two minutes there is another victim of rape. Every two minutes there is another person who may or may not get justice for a terrible crime committed against them. In today’s society these victims of sexual assault are shunned and blamed for these crimes do to the ever growing’ rape culture that is present in America. An article written by John Fidler that was published in Reading Eagle states, “’Well, what was she wearing?’…

THE MEDIA AND RAPE CULTURE The lines of sexual assault and rape have become blurred through the media. While the drive for sex may come from hormones and other biological factors, the entitlement that male college students have derives from social cues and media representation of masculinity. In her book Fraternity Gang Rape, author Peggy Sandy comments that “those men who object to this kind of behavior run the risk of being labeled as ‘wimps’ or, even worse in their eyes, ‘gays’ or ‘faggots’.…

Rape has been a constant feature of warfare throughout history and in today’s society. In fact is a systematic and brutal weapon that is used mainly against women in the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rape has been one of the most productive weapons of the civil war that has affected the country’s eastern provinces since nineteen ninety-eight. In this research paper, I would be discussing the prevalence and consequences of sexual violence; rape in the eastern democratic…

Rape in the Military Rape is a type of sexual assault where the assailant forces sexual intercourse on a victim without consent. When a person thinks of rape in the military they may think of the enemy kidnapping soldiers and raping them. But this is not the case, the very soldiers that risks their lives to protect us get raped by a fellow soldiers within the military. Many people lack awareness about this very topic because the victims have fear in reporting it. If people knew about the…

Rape Culture: The Epidemic She was Twenty-four, the world around her seemed grand and full of potential. She had a boyfriend she believed she could trust. She would soon discover that trusting him was going to be her biggest mistake. On an early afternoon at her home they were in the bed they shared. She rose from the left side of the bed and she felt his right hand grab her right arm. A minor argument ensued because he was upset at her answer telling him she did not want to have sex. He let go…

supremacy over society is felt. Proof to this is the widespread evil is the custodial rape in our society. And due to this we are lead to conclusion that the power relation of the society is unequal. This unequal power connection in the public eye guarantees the shaping of a financial progressive system where one individual at a higher position uses his position to abuse a person at lower position. In case of custodial rape we will see that not only the position is used to commit the crime but…

Accompanying the resurgence of popular ‘feminism’, the discussion of rape and sexual assault in places of work, education and duty have been brought to the table for awareness and reform. In many cases the justice system works against victims. Too many stories tell the events of detectives and district attorneys inappropriately favoring the accused and not attempting to investigate the claim of the victim. Further accounts of colleges and universities not complying with regulation to investigate…

acts such as rape forever scaring people who have to endure it. The psychological and physical pain is unimaginable. There is an average of 240 rapes per day and 32,000 pregnancies each year reported from victims. The human capacity of love and physical intimacy can in some cases become so corrupt as to produce it’s opposite side in forms of rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, but while reading this chapter it was still hard to truly understand how there are so many accounts of rape each…