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Rape - Types Of Rapes!

20 January, 2007

Types of rape

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[edit] Acquaintance ("date") rape

Main article: Date Rape

The term "acquaintance rape" (or "date rape") refers to rape or non-consensual sexual activity between people who are already acquainted, or who know each other socially — friends, acquaintances, people on a date, or even people in an existing romantic relationship — where it is alleged that consent for sexual activity was not given, or was given under duress. The vast majority of rapes are committed by people who already know the victim.[1] Different countries have different rape laws. In many countries it is not possible to commit the crime of rape against one's own wife or husband. If two people are regularly sexually intimate, in many countries it is not a crime for one partner to have sex with their sleeping or drunk partner even though that partner did not give express consent. In fact, rape laws vary greatly from country to country.

[edit] Drug facilitated rape

Main article: Date rape drug

Various drugs are used by rapists to render their victims unconscious, some also cause memory loss.

[edit] Female rape

Although the exact numbers of female victims of rape is unknown, RAINN estimates that one in six American women are the victims of sexual assault. Like men many women find it difficult to come forward after being raped, for fear of humiliation and blame.

[edit] Gang rape

Group rape (also known as "gang" or "pack" rape) occurs when a group of people participate in the rape of a single victim. 10% to 20% involve more than one attacker. It is far more damaging to the victim, and in some jurisdictions, is punished more severely than rape by a single person. The term "gang bang" was a synonym for gang rape when public discussion of sexual activity in general was taboo; in the advent of the pornography industry and relaxed sexual tensions, it is now often used as a slang term for consensual group sex. The term "group rape" is now often preferred to "gang rape", as the word "gang" can have racial connotations when used against minority defendants.^{[citation needed]}

This is also related to Rape used in Warfare where the pack mentality is highly predominant.

According to sexual crime profiler Roy Hazelwood, gang rape "involves three or more offenders and you always have a leader and a reluctant participant. Those are extremely violent, and what you find is that they're playing for each other's approval. It gets into a pack mentality and can be horrendous."

[edit] Male rape

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest Nation Network (RAINN) one out of every thirty-three men has been the victim of sexual abuse. Many men find it difficult to come forward after being raped, for fear of humiliation. Many men find being raped to be a loss of masculinity.

[edit] Rape of children by parents, elder relatives, and other responsible elders

This form of rape is incest when committed by the child's parents or close relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles. It is considered incestuous in nature but not in form when committed by other elders, such as priests, nuns or other religious authorities, school teachers, or therapists, to name a few, on whom the child is dependent. Psychologists estimate that 40 million adults, 15 million of those being men (Adams 1991), in the United States were sexually abused in childhood often by parents, close relatives and other elders — of both genders — on whom they were dependent.

Children, including but not limited to adolescents, raped by their parents and other close elders are often called 'secret survivors' by psychologists, as they often are unable or unwilling to tell anyone about these rapes due to implicit or explicit threats by the adult rapist, fear of abandonment by the rapist, and/or overwhelming shame. Since the signs of these insidious rapes are usually invisible except to trained professionals these children often suffer ongoing offenses in silence until independence from the adult rapist is attained. By that time, the statute of limitations is often long-expired, the adult victim's repressed memories are often considered inadmissible as evidence and the teen-rapist is able to escape justice. (It should be noted that repressed memories are a hotly debated topic in the psychological community, and many psychologists do not believe in their existence. For more information, see the "repressed memories" article.) In addition, rapists who rape their own children are considered less culpable, legally, than other rapists in most US states.

[edit] Rape as means of warfare

During war rape is often used as means of psychological warfare in order to humiliate the enemy and undermine their morale. Rapes in war are often systematic and thorough, and military leaders may actually encourage their soldiers to rape civilians. Likewise, systematic rapes are often employed as a form of ethnic cleansing. During the Yugoslavian Civil War it was reported that Serbian soldiers hoarded enemy women into camps, who were than raped on a daily basis until pregnancy occurred.^[1]^[2]

Additionally, in China during World War II occurred the Nanking Massacre where rape was used as a tool to humiliate the civilians under Japanese oppression.

[edit] Spousal rape

Main article: Spousal rape

Also known as marital rape, wife rape, partner rape or intimate partner sexual assault (IPSA), is rape between a married or de facto couple.

It is often assumed that spousal rape is less traumatic than that from a stranger. Research reveals that victims of marital/partner rape suffer longer lasting trauma than victims of stranger rape,^[3] possibly because of a lack of social validation that prevents a victim from getting access to support; a problem that Domestic violence services combat.

[edit] Statutory rape

Main article: Statutory rape

National and/or regional governments, citing an interest in protecting "young people" (variously defined but sometimes synonymous with minors), treat any sexual contact with such a person as an offense (not always categorised as "rape"), even if he or she agrees to the sexual activity. The offense is often based on a presumption that people under a certain age do not have the capacity to give informed consent. The age at which individuals are considered competent to give consent is called the age of consent. This varies in different countries and regions, and in the US ranges from 14 to 18. Sex which violates age-of-consent law, but is neither violent nor physically coerced, is sometimes described as "statutory rape", a legally-recognized category in the United States.

[edit] Footnotes

^ new Internationalist issue 244, June 1993. Rape: Weapon of War by Angela Robson. accessed on 2006-11-12
^ Human Rights News Bosnia: Landmark Verdicts for Rape, Torture, and Sexual Enslavement: Criminal Tribunal Convicts Bosnian Serbs for Crimes Against Humanity 02/22/01, accessed on 2006-11-12
^ Finkelhor and Yllo (1985) and Bergen (1996)

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