Sexual Victimization – Man Lures Drunken Girl to his Room

Sexual Victimization | Types of Rape | Causes of Rape | Preventing Rape | Recovering From Rape | Child Sexual Abuse | Sexual Harrassment

Sexual victimization can take the form of rape, child sexual abuse, or sexual harrassment. There are many misconceptions and false beliefs regarding rape and the following include:

• Women can’t be rape if they really don’t want to be.
• Women say no when they mean yes.
• Many rape victims report to authority.
• Women want to be raped.
• Rapists are mentally ill.
• Men cannot control their sexual urges.

Men are physically stronger and women cannot resist rape because men can overpower women. Most of the time the rapist use the element of surprise in choosing the time and place for the assault and using weapons to threaten victims into submission.

The rapists have false belief women like to be force into sexual activity and this belief allow him to justify his action because in his own mind it is not rape or sexual victimization but sex act.

Many rape victims do not report to authority because they usually blame themselves for what happen. Another reason for not reporting to authority is they do not want to re-experience the trauma. They also have fear others may blame them for what happen and some victims chose to keep the assault private.

Some women have raped fantasies and the rapist used this to justify women want to be raped. There is a big difference between erotic fantasy and the actual rape. Women are in control of her erotic fantasy involving thoughts and feelings with no physical threat or violence. The actual rape is a sexual assault involving threat, physical force and violence for which she has no control.

Most rapists are not mentally ill who cannot be easily identified and they exist in all socioeconomic levels. Most rapes are committed by someone known to the victim.

Men cannot control their sexual urges is a false belief and the rapist used this to justify his action by blaming the victim for engaging in behavior that lead men on by wearing sexy dress.

Sexual victimization against children is usually committed by male who cannot be easily identified and they exist in all socioeconomic levels. Most child sexual abuse is either committed by someone known to the victim referred to as incest or committed by someone not related to the victim referred to as pedophilia. In either case the offender are poorly informed about sexuality and have false idea regarding sexual contact between adult and child.

Sexual victimization also takes the form of sexual harrassment that exists in all segments of the work force and occurs in all professional levels. Sexual harrassment may range from making sexual remark to more severe case of sexual assault. Sexual harrassment also exists in academic setting usually involving male professor making unwanted sexual advance on female student.

Types of Rape In general there are at least three different types of rape committed by rapist and these may include stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and statutory rape.

Causes of Rape The causes of rape involved the process of socialization within society.

Preventing Rape Learning strategies for preventing rape can help lower the risk of being rape.

Recovering From Rape Many rape survivors suffer from long-lasting emotional effects recovering from rape aftermath.

Child Sexual Abuse Child sexual abuse is an act committed by adult who engaged in sexual contact with a child that involved inappropriate touching, genital stimulation, or any types of sexual interaction.

Sexual Harrassment In US sexual harrassment can take two forms as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines.

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