There are several stories all over the news about date rape. A crime like this causes so much trauma that scars a person forever. Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. Just the thought of someone grabbing you in unwanted areas is extremely disturbing and revolting. Every 2 minutes someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted, most likely the victim is a women between the ages of 16-24. A significant amount of these victims do not report the crime, but sometimes when they do the perpetrator doesn’t receive the fair, necessary punishment. Date rape is rape of a woman by a man with who she is familiar with. The rapist is usually the woman's "date". …show more content…
In order to make this even more unmemorable for the victim, the perpetrator proceeds to add sleeping pills and other drugs like marijuana and cocaine with some alcohol in the mixture to heavily tranquilize the person. The person, which is most likely a girl, loses consciousness within 15-20 minutes and the rape begins. After the horrible matter the victim doesn’t really remember much, but one thing she should do is go to the hospital to get an exam done on her, she has to tell someone that she trusts so the rapist can receive his cruel punishment for that disgusting crime. It is highly important for that person that just got raped not to urinate, so there can be even more evidence that she was
As seniors in high school are committed to colleges and getting excited for some of the best years of their lives, they are preparing for early classes, late nights and good times. These teens have been looking forward to these years that have seemed to come so fast. Of course they’re getting excited about picking their dream job and looking forward to meeting life long friends that they should be able to trust. No one thinks about or mentions the number of rapes on college campuses. If the first thing colleges mentioned was the reported rapes on their campuses, would that change the minds of kids that have had a certain college in mind? Besides the reported date rapes, what about the estimated sexual assaults that go unreported? Knowing the facts and statistics about colleges and how they handle sexual assault cases would make anyone getting ready for college think twice about how safe they’re being and who they are trusting.
The following morning is a dreadful, long one that stays with you forever. The memories in your mind keep crawling up every night when you fall asleep. You keep asking yourself, “Why did it happen to me? What did I do wrong?” Yet no answer comes to mind, all that you can think of is being violated, being misled for a simple task-rape. Why does it happen to us? What do the men see when the door is opened and a gorgeous women stands in front of their eyes. The mind collapses trying to find a solution to the problem. It's like having an exam and the only way for you to score is to cheat. So all girls are just scores guys try to push themselves upon? The mind grows blank and the human body works with sexual instinct. Date rape is one of those things that one man can't find a proper answer for. There are so many possibilities that one might think of as the cause of the problem. Which one is the right one? Is there one specific answer that is physiologically correct? No. Everyone has his or her own opinion, whether it is from experience or from common knowledge. Date rape is mainly cased by the in-proper behavior of the rapist. A man who can rape a woman has obviously been brought up in an uncomfortable, improper raised environment.
When people think about rape, they usually think of a stranger with a knife hiding in the bushes. He waits for a woman to walk by and then attacks. But that is not the only kind of rape. The majority of victims are raped by individuals they know or acquaintances. This rape is known as “acquaintance rape” or “date rape.” Eighty percent of all rapes are, in fact, acquaintance rapes. This kind of rape happens when a man and a woman go out on a date together. The man forces the woman to have sex with him when she does not want to. Also called simple rape, which differs from real rape, because real rape involves weapons, violence and attackers. This kind of rape is recognized as rape in courtrooms, where simple rape is dismissed as not real rape and it is more common that the offender will be found not guilty.
What is date rape? Is date rape different from rape? In a traditional date, a man and a woman meet for dinner and hope that it goes well so they can continue to see each other. In some cases, things go terribly wrong causing law enforcement to get involved. According to Paglia, all women have want men want. Thus, we must be extremely careful when meeting someone for the first time, as we do not know if we can yet trust. We cannot trust that they will not place a drug in our drink when we go to the restroom. Some may argue that men should be taught to never to that to a woman. But shouldn’t a woman be taught to not leave a drink unattended during a date or during a party?
Sexual assault is defined as a type of behaviour that occurs without explicit consent from the recipient and under sexual assault come various categories such as sexual activities as forces sexual intercourse, incest, fondling, attempted rape and more (Justice.gov. 2017). People often become victims of sexual assault by someone they know and trust (Mason & Lodrick, 2013) which is conflicting to the public’s perception and beliefs that offenders are strangers. Women are the main victims for sexual assault and are 5 times more likely to have been a victim of sexual assault from a male (Wright, 2017, p. 93). Men are victims of sexual assault however only 0.7% of men, compared to 3.2% of women, experience some form of sexual assault which highlights how vulnerable women are compared to men. Sexual assault is publicised and exposed in the media, however is often
Rape is variable in its types and definitions. It is defined by Merriam-Webster as the action of forcing someone to have sex with a person by the threat or use of violence. According to Lois Pineau, rape is best defined as nonconsensual sex that involves the male penetration of a woman that is not his marital partner (Pineau 452). There are also several types of rape that include: date rape, gang rape, statutory rape, prison rape, etc. However, Pineau’s focus is on date rape and its problems about if it really occurred or not. Date rape, according to Pineau, is “nonaggravated sexual assault” or nonconsensual sex that does not include physical injury or its threats (Pineau 452). Pineau addresses several issues within her essay. She describes the problems that arise when attempting to classify whether or not date rape has actually occurred. She also argues that communicative sexuality is a successful tool in defining date rape. Ideally, she is stating that women, implicitly of course, want to be raped and that they lead men onto the idea.
Annotated Bibliography Sielke, Sabine. Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture 1790-1990. Princeton University Press, 2002. Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape, considering the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric has performed and finds that rape has been an insistent figure for a range of social, political, and economic issues.
Rape is not just an action against an individual, but a violent crime that can scar a life
Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon is a collection of three essays; each essay argues her claim that sexual words and pictures should be banned instead of Constitutionally protected under the First Amendment as free speech. In her first essay, “Defamation and Discrimination,” MacKinnon takes the stance that pornography is sex, and should not be treated as speech, but as a sexist act. She claims that pornography is an action, just as, “a sign saying ‘White Only’ is only words, but … it is seen as the act of segregation that it is.”(MacKinnon 13) MacKinnon claims that other action words, such as death threats, are banned, pornography should be banned as well. According to her essay, pornography rapes women. First, the photographers select already victimized women to be photographed, and thereby re-victimizing them. Then each man who views the pornography uses the ideas he attains from it to force his own sexual partner to perform the acts in the pornography. In the second essay, “Racial and Sexual Harassment,” MacKinnon states, “if ever words have been understood as acts, it has been when they are sexual harassment.”(MacKinnon 45) She explains how written words can have the same effects on a reader as an action. They can evoke the same fear and violation as a physical threat of rape. In her final essay, “Equality and Speech,” MacKinnon suggests that the words as actions that she has describes in her previous essays should be subject to a group defamation lawsuit. She states that the Constitution protects speech that promotes sexual inequality. She feels that the Fourteenth Amendment should cover the discrimination allowed in the First Amendment.
Sexual assault is a traumatic event that can cause extreme psychological effects on the victim. These effects can be short-term, and they can manifest themselves into long-term effects, depending on the individual and how the sexual assault occurred. Victims of sexual assault can be either male or female, with both sexes having fairly similar psychological effects. In addition to these psychological effects, some individuals develop Rape Trauma Syndrome or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which can be more easily classified as short-term versus long-term responses. Every individual is different and may differ in their reactions to this event; there is no normal or common way to react (Kaminker, 1998, pg. 23).
The actual act of rape by definition of law is the penetration by the perpetrator against one’s will. Rape is a physical and emotional crime which leaves un-curable scars. When a male sexually abuses a female he may not fully understand or care about the emotional toll placed on her life forever. Her outlook on life may change and she may feel that she is all alone. There are a lot of different disorders that rape victims come in contact with but one sticks out more than the others. One serious disorder that “1/3 of all rape victims will experience sometime in their life is PTSD” (Kilpatrick). PTSD stands for “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” which is an “extremely debilitating disorder occurring after...
Webster’s Dictionary describes rape as the crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse. Rape is a crime in which most women cannot defend themselves. The fear of rape plagues every woman at some point or another in her life. The traumatic effects of rape vary from mild to severe, from psychological to physical. This paper will evaluate rape, as well as the effects it has on women, the theory behind male dominance and patriarchy, and differences in demographics.
There are many causes of Date Rape. Most rapists believe they deserve sex for a number of reasons. Some believe just because someone isn’t wearing enough clothing that it’s okay to hold them down and force them to have sexual intercourse, they blame the victims saying that it wasn’t their fault that they couldn’t hold their sexual temptations. Some men feel
Rape is defined as the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. This act knows no bounds. It is not color restricted and can touch a woman of any age. Now, this kind of issue does happen to adult women, but does not happen as often as it does in younger women. Statistically speaking someone is being raped every two minutes, which means that women and adolescents are left being traumatized. Men are not free from this horror. Most rapes of men occur in adolescent years as opposed to adulthood, but it does happen. However most men do not come forward and admit any thing which makes it hard to put together statistics on the male gender. So for the remainder of this paper my information will be about how rape victims such as women.