Essays on Rape

Running Head: ACQUAINTANCE RAPE Acquaintance Rape: It Could Happen To Anyone Abstract Anyone can be a victim of acquaintance rape. It does not matter if the victim is male or female, old or young; it can still happen. Just by being at a party full of friends or even going on a date with a significant other, everyone is at risk. It is never the victims fault. There is no possible way to know when or to whom it will happen. Acquaintance Rape: It Could Happen To Anyone We are taught “don’t

It is six o’clock in the evening, a special news segment on world affairs is on the television. The journalist is doing a piece on inhumane practices that occur in third world countries, one of these travesties being rape. The voices of women who have been stolen from their homes and have been taken advantage of against their own will infiltrate the air. These personal stories have an incredulously powerful impact on those listening and make one think “How could such an outrageous thing happen?”

Rape culture is a society where sexual violence against women is perceived as normal and essential part of womanhood. Rape culture includes misogynistic language, sexualization of women’s body and excusing sexual violence against women. Women are faced with rape culture in their everyday life to an extend that it is a threat to their safety. The steps for defeating rape culture is first to be aware of rape culture, second is to speak out if you see an another person experiencing rape culture and

One study described by academic professor Antonia Abby, she explains that a group of 160 male students listened to an audiotape recording of a date rape. In the beginning of the recording, the female agrees to engage in touching and kissing; However, once the male tries to take off her clothes, the female immediately refuses to participate and the male becomes verbally and physically aggressive. During the study, the participants were asked to stop the tape where they think the man’s behaviour in

The term Rape is derived from the Latin Rapere word which means “to seize, steal or carry away by force.” This atrocity can be traced back to the time of King Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty, reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. He famously established the Hammurabi Code which the catch-phrase “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” came from. Despite the fact, that he constituted the first set of laws which is a relic of the bygone era and has manifestly rendered assistance

and drinking so much!” Although our society does not directly promote rape, people have created a faulty societal environment in which victims are blamed for their own assaults, rape perpetrators are viewed sympathetically, and the mainstream media glamorizes rape attitudes. One of the most tragic downfalls of our society is its tendency to normalize and often times even romanticize sexual assault and abuse. Unfortunately, rape culture is a major issue that is downplayed in the eye of the general

FBI Director Robert S. Muller III told Congress that the FBI Advisory Board approved a new definition of rape to define rape as “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part of object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim” (Ryan, 2011, pg.1). This revised definition includes both males and females. The terms “rape” and “sexual assault” refers to any unwanted contact of the sexual organs of one person, whether male or

Nikolina Jovanovic Global Lit Accel Dudek April 4, 2014 Rape of Nanking In late 1937, the Japanese army brutally murdered and assaulted civilians in Nanking, China over a period of six weeks. This event in history was one of the most horrendous and also an event that is rarely talked about or taught in school. This part of history was known as the Second Sino- Japanese war. The Japanese had a contempt for the Chinese people, thinking that they were the lowest race on the planet. China had a

negotiated sexual consent. The research concluded that "men's rape proclivity was associated with personal acceptance of pressuring behaviors but not with their personal or normative acceptance of benevolent dating behaviors." (Strain et. al, 2015 pg. 333) Let us take a moment to breakdown the meaning of this statement in terms everyone is capable of understanding. Within the sample population those men whom were most likely to commit rape were more accepting of behaviors pressured women to have sex

If someone was asked, would you approve of rape? Usually, the answer would be no without any hesitation, but what people do not seem to realize is that people say yes to rape all the time due its promotion through rape culture that is everywhere in our society. The concept of rape culture is not new, but the term itself is and over the most recent years the definition of rape culture has gradually evolved, that there is not one specific definition for the term anymore. Women and men alike have started