Statutory rape

hot summer day in 1935 makes a mistake that will forever shape her life and those closest to her. After witnessing several events she does not understand and seeing her cousin being sexually assaulted, Briony accuses Robbie, her father’s protégé, of rape. With these three simple words “I saw him”, she sends an innocent man to prison and for that spends the rest of her life trying to atone for her crime. The purpose of this essay is to analyse some of the reasons that might have led Briony to…

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by a petrifying event that an individual has witnessed or experienced. The most common events that cause an individual to have post-traumatic stress disorder is combat, sexual assault, a natural disaster, and car accidents. In the brilliantly written novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, written by David Guterson, the main characters Kabuo Miyamoto and Ishmael Chambers are haunted by their unspeakable pasts. To briefly…

Pornography is a verbal or pictorial explicit representations of sexual behaviour that, in the word of Commission on obscenity and pornography.There is no doubt that pornography is often used in child molestations. It is also 100% accurate to say that pornography is a major source of information on sexuality for children. Anyone who has grown up in this society knows that viewing pornography begins at an early age. This fact is disturbing not only because children are very impressionable but…

One of the debates that emerged from the brutal and vastly covered in media, The Delhi Gang Rape (2012), was if Bollywood promoted rape culture through its item numbers critiquing the male gaze on women’s bodies and questioning whether the hyper-sexualization of Bollywood’s actresses served to normalize sexual harassment. The new trend being, the asexual, good Indian girl (who ultimately is coveted by the hero) constructed against the sexualized item-girl and one instantly thinks of the…

An intriguing theme in Women at Point Zero by Nawal Ed Saadawi is ‘the paradox of power’. A purely feminist book, the translated version we read in class is a third-hand story of a prostitute named Firdaus who kills her pimp and tells the story of her life to author and narrator Ed Saadawi before the day of her execution. The protagonist Firdaus is a strong character through whom we learn of the kind of life most women in Egypt lived in the fifties through the seventies which is the setting of…

I’m Gossip Girl, a pretty big deal here in New York. I get the gossip and spread the latest news on the more well known teens that attend Constance Billard,a private school in New York. I don’t do the dirty work myself, all of the gossip that I tend to tell is sent in by other teens or just pretty much anyone who has the latest dirt on someone that they think should be exposed. The fun part about being “Gossip Girl” is that no one knows who I am. At the very end of the series, I finally tell you…

The understanding of what rape actually is has been an issue than the American people cannot seem to comprehend. There are some men and women who believe when a person says “no,” they really mean, “try harder.” However, in Funk’s essay “Why Men Rape,” he explains, according to Nicholas Goth, the three main reasons that motivate men to rape, which are the desire for power, control, and domination. In addition, he goes further into detail about the three types of rapists. The Power Rapist, which…

Gender violence includes offenses such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, and anyone of any gender can become a victim. However, the stereotypical victim of gender violence is female because a large proportion of victims are women. Consequentially, as Jackson Katz discusses in his TED Talk “Violence against women – it’s a men’s issue”, many people believe that issues such as domestic violence and sexual harassment only affect women and, thus, are deemed “women’s issues”…

In 1987, Annie Dillard writes an excerpt in her book ,An American Chase, that portrays how differently society views boys and girls. In the world that we live in now, males are allowed to do reckless activities without reprimand, but at the same time if a female did the same thing we would be reprimanded right there on the spot. From birth we are taught to never come out of the perfect little box that society put us in. The social view for men and women are completely different just due to the…

Only rape victims can understand the horrors of being sexually assaulted. Melinda Sordino, the protagonist of the novel, Speak, narrates the story in which she is sexually assaulted at the beginning of ninth grade by a boy named Andy Evans. Melinda is lost, confused, and depressed trying to overcome her trauma, while her classmates bully her for calling the cops on a party. Additionally, her parents and teachers consider Melinda a disappointment because of her actions in school and inability to…