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| Ten Points
on SEXUAL ASSAULT • Rape is a crime motivated by a need to control, humiliate and harm. A rapist is not interested in sexual pleasure, but in hurting or dominating another person. • Dating violence affects about one in ten teen couples. • More than 60% of male rapists are married. Almost all male rapists had normal sexual relationships at the time of the assault for which they were convicted. • Most rapes are committed by a person known to the victim. • No one ever asks to be raped. The rapist chooses victims who seem vulnerable. •Any sex without consent is rape. No one can be compelled to have sex, even by a spouse. Marital rape is a crime. • A large percentage of “date rapes” involve alcohol or drug use by the victim and the perpetrator. • Drinking or drug use are not causes of rape: they are tools used by rapists. • “Date rape” drugs, such as GHB, pass completely out of a woman’s system within 12 hours, making its presence difficult to prove unless medical tests are performed within that time. • Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, especially when the harasser is a person with authority over the victim, either in a business or academic environment. |
“There is no difference
between being raped and going head first through a windshield except that
afterward you are afraid not of cars but half the human race.” —Marge Piercy RESOURCES: Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute www.frsai.org Sexual Assault Care Center www.sacc.to National Sexual Assault Hotline 1.800.656.HOPE (1.800.656.4673) Rape Abuse and incest National Network www.rainn.org |
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