Rape

Rape is a silent epidemic amongst many contradicting topics. I say silent because there are a high number of rapes compared to the very low number of reports. Something so obvious can also be oblivious to many especially when an individual isn’t aware that even they can become a victim of sexual assault. It’s so easy to think this way when you or anyone you know hasn’t come face to face with sexual assault. Many of these individuals are college students especially those on or near college…

Any young woman heading to college is unfortunately aware of the constant sexual assault threat that is posed to her. Rape is unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will of a person who is incapable of valid consent. In the recent years more cases of student athletes committing rape while in college have surfaced. As more news of these cases are brought to light the more nation wide upset they are causing. Sexual assault…

Hirsch’s article discusses the critical issue on college campuses which is date rape. Hirsch’s article provides a brief background on her experience when stepping onto the grounds at an all-male lunch at Princeton University, to have an educational session about date rape. In her, article Hirsch states that after 140 sexual violence programs, almost none were an impact. Hirsch is faced with void trying to find just one university to start devoting their considerable research capacities to…

become pregnant through rape from being forced to share their children with their rapists. Although many people aren’t taking the rape epidemic seriously. They think that it’s a big joke and that it will never happen to them if they take care of themselves. Some don’t even know that much about…

has already hit the maturity age. There have been laws put into place to prevent minors engaging in relationships with those who are over the age of 18. A particular law that has recently been put into place is the “Romeo and Juliet Law.” Statutory rape laws are put into place to prevent older men or women from engaging in sexual activity with one who is younger than the age of consent. One growing issue with these laws is they are continuously being broken. Society often puts down the thought…

Rape in prison is not a secret and sadly is not being addressed as well as it should be. In 2003 US Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act or PREA, which led to the establishment of the National Rape Elimination Commission and the introduction of a zero tolerance policy towards sexual violence in prisons. Before PREA, the head of the American State…

Current Event 3 In the article “A Brief History of Juanita Broaddrick, The Woman Accusing Bill Clinton of Rape,” the author Eyder Peralta relates about the story of Juanita Broaddrick, who claims ex-president Bill Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, when Mr Clinton was the Arkansas attorney general. Broaddrick’s rape allegations have surfaced twice, once when Bill Clinton was running for presidency in 1992, and another one during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. The fact…

in service. All of these young men and women were sexually assaulted and nothing was done about it, their rapist were not prosecuted and many of them are still in the service today getting awards and getting promoted. One women in the film said, if rape cases ever came in they were never given to the women, the men always took those because we were too sympathetic (Wells, 2012). Women who have been raped in the Military have a PTSD rate higher than men who’ve been in combat (Kirby, 2012). The…

role model for them. On the other hand if the gender of an officer is different from that of an inmate, we risk the chance of unwanted activities occurring. Though we might not want to admit it, prison rape is real, whether it’s between two inmates or an inmate and a guard. In order to ensure rape doesn’t occur the best thing to do would have to be place male officers with male inmates and female officers with female inmates. Coming from man’s prospective, we can be a bit stubborn at times, a…

Although so much has changed and improved in rape culture, there is still so much growing that still needs to occur. Far too often, the victim blames his or herself. Regardless of the amount of clothing they were wearing, or if they were voluntarily on a date with the person, or if they were drunk, it is never the victim’s fault. This was very hard for me to understand, and over the past two years, my mind has been flooded with many contradictory thoughts. Was I raped? Of course not. You…