Rape
Rape is a sexual assault on any unwilling victim. The term has been used in conjunction with both heterosexual and homosexual assaults. People often talk about sexual assaults in prisons as rapes...
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Sexual Violence and Exploitation
Sexual violence and exploitation are social problems that were relatively neglected as research topics until the late 1960s. This article focuses primarily on the diff...
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“Few other human transgressions elicit the level of anger, fear and distaste that many Americans feel in response to sexual crimes.”
—Erica Goode
In the last three decades of the...
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In 1990, a feminist group from Antioch College demanded that the administration of the college institute a sexual consent policy binding upon all Antioch students. The group, Womyn of Antioch, sought ...
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Rape is an experience which shakes the foundations of the lives of the victims. For many its effect is long term, impairing their capacity for personal relationships, altering their behaviour and valu...
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"I reached my hand up to touch the marks and cuts. That was me. It was also an undeniable truth: No shower would wipe the traces of the rape away" (Sebold 21). Taken from a victim's recollection of ...
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