Rape has become the fastest growing, most under-reported, and least punished crime in the United States. “It is legally defined as sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion.” (23) The FBI estimates that only one in ten rapes are ever reported to the police, and of those reported 50% of the rapists are arrested. Some people think that rape is “secretly desired,” or the victim “asked for it.” However, the truth is no women or man ever really asks to be raped. The nature of rape is violence, and not an act of sexual intimacy. (“Myths and Facts about Rape, pg. 1) Another widely held disbelief is that only “bad girls” (sexually active women) or young beautiful miniskirt wearing women are raped. The fact is there is no such thing as a “typical rape.” Both men and women are raped by both men and women perpetrators. Victims, ages ranged from two months to ninety-seven years. Many people believe that only women can be raped, but the truth is that almost as many boys as girls are sexually abused before they reach the
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Women are raped by their husbands or boyfriends 28, 35 by acquaintances, 5 by other relatives. It should be known that they to could be victims of this horrid criminal act. Even when you are married, one can be raped by their husbands. One statistic states that rape occurs approximately once every four minutes. Talmudic law makes little distinction between seduction and rape. 68 of rape victims knew their assailant. Jaffe explains that 10-14 of all married women has been raped by their husbands. One is six males will be sexually victimized in his lifetime. ("Rape" 5,362) It is a violation of a women"tms virginity. " (Jaffe 11) In a study by Mary Koss on college campuses, 13 of men admitted to using violence to obtain sex. In fact statistics show that "approximately one in four college women have been raped or will be raped. (Jaffe 10) It is also freighting to discover that "about 67 of all rapists are known by their victims in some way, only 33 are complete strangers. (Jaffe 10) Contrary to what some might believe "93 of rapists assault women of their same race.
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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:
Date Rape
The problem of date rape is one that has been much discussed along with the related issues of sexual harassment and spousal abuse. (1489 
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Rape
Rape is generally seen today as a crime of violence and not a crime of sex, but having said that, there are a number of different views of the meaning of rape (2748 11 )
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Rape
"Treatment for survivors of rape: Issues and interventions" by Hensley (2002). The particular trauma focused on in this article was rape. (646 3 )
Date Rape
Lois Pineau, in her essay "Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis," argues that the problem with understanding and defining date rape, in order to prevent it from (1702 7 )
Spousal rape
Spousal rape is part of what feminists call an epidemic of rape--date rape, acquaintance rape, random violence rape. Women who lobby (2513 10 )
The Crime of Forcible Rape
The research analyzes the crime of rape in a theoretical context. The use of the term "rape" in this research refers to crimes wherein the victim is a female. (1730 7 )
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