Posted on 09/10/2013 12:07:23 PM PDT by usalady
Sexual assault victims on college campuses are often met with denial of why the attack took place because of the myths associated with this violent sex crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
It is an act of physical violence and domination that is not motivated by sexual needs. It has little to do with the need for sex.
affecting.
now I will read the article.
You’re joking, right?
Not going to read your examiner blog. If you have something to say, post the whole thing here.
WRONG
Thanks for posting one of the great myths of our time.
It goes back to the start of the sexual revolution, when a concerted effort was made to get rid of the notion that any sexual activity could possibly be "bad."
Since we were all agreed that rape was bad, then obviously it couldn't be sex.
In actual fact, of course, the sexual urge can be turned to evil, as can indeed any human emotion or drive.
The very existence of a thriving BDSM subculture shows very clearly that for many sexual need is entangled with physical violence and domination. Saying it is "A not B" implies that it cannot be "A and B," which is of course nonsense. Rape is of course just BDSM games carried to their logical extreme.
That twisted sexual compulsions, including those for rape and child molestation, have a definite physical/sexual component can be seen by the statistics for chemical or physical castration, in those countries and states where this is permitted. It is generally admitted that recidivism for child molesting is over 90%. I'm not sure what it is for serial rapists.
For those castrated, admittedly usually a self-selected group who do not consciously want to continue these actions, the recidivism rate is generally under 10%.
That's a pretty dramatic difference for something that has "nothing to do with the sexual urge."
I see the are still trotting out the same old fake statistics about rape.
Sexual Assault Statistics
Here are some important sexual assault statistics that can help your institution make informed decisions when developing policies to protect your campus community.
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By Robin Hattersley Gray | March 06, 2012 | Comments (2) | Post a comment
Between 20% and 25% of women will experience a completed and/or attempted rape during their college career (1)
More than half of raped college women tell no one of their victimization (1)
80% of sexual assault and rape victims are under the age of 30 (1)
44% of sexual assault and rape victims are under the age of 18 (1)
Persons with a disability had an age-adjusted rate of rape or sexual assault that was more than twice the rate for persons without a disability (1)
Juveniles (youth ages 17 and under) account for almost 90% of male victims in every type of sex crime (1)
99% of people who rape are men (1)
In 1 in 3 sexual assaults, the perpetrator was intoxicated (1)
Only about 2% of all sexual assault accusations reported to police turn out to be false. This is the same rate of false reporting as other types of violent crimes. (1)
Victims were on a date with the perpetrator in 12.8% of completed rapes and 35% of attempted rapes (2)
43% of the sexual victimization incidents involve alcohol consumption by victims and 69% involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrators (2)
Approximately 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner (3)
College freshmen and sophomore women appear to be at greater risk of being victims of sexual assault than are upperclassmen. 84% of the women who reported sexually coercive experiences experienced the incident during their first four semesters on campus. (4)
Students living in sorority houses and on-campus dormitories are 3 times and 1.4 times (respectively) more likely to be raped than students living off-campus (5)
38% of college-aged women who have been sexually victimized while in college had first been victims prior to entering college, making past victimization the best predictor of future victimization (6)
At least 50% of college student sexual assaults are associated with alcohol use (7)
Fraternity men have been identified as being more likely to perpetrate sexual assault or sexual aggression than nonfraternity men (8)
College men who participated in aggressive sports (including football, basketball, wrestling and soccer) in high school used more sexual coercion (along with physical and psychological aggression) in their college dating relationships than men who had not. This group also scored higher on attitudinal measures thought to be associated with sexual coercion, such as sexism, acceptance of violence, hostility toward women and rape myth acceptance. (9)
90% of acquaintance rapes involve alcohol (10)
30% of the college women who said they had been raped contemplated suicide after the incident (11)
(1) U.S. Department of Justice
(2) National College Women Sexual Victimization
(3) Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Abuse, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy and Suicidality
(4) An Examination of Sexual Violence Against College Women
(5) Correlates of Rape While Intoxicated in a National Sample of College Women
(6) Our Vulnerable Teenagers: Their Victimization, Its Consequences, and Direction for Prevention and Intervention
(7) High Risk Drinking in College: What We Know and What We Need to Learn
(8) Coercive Sexual Strategies
(9) Dating Aggression, Sexual Coercion, and Aggression-Supporting Attitudes Among College Men as a Function of Participation in Aggressive High School Sports
(10) National Collegiate Date and Acquaintance Rape Statistics
(11) Warshaw, Robin, 1994
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Pretty funny. Stupid video playing over the blog was “Don’t worry, drink Naked.” Something about a brand of rum.
No matter what the original motivation, rape, in the traditional definition, cannot be effected with lust coming into play.
Rapists rape because it gets them off.
Now lets go look at some real statistics.
Lets selects LSU Main Campus Baton Rouge.
Criminal Offenses - On campus
Total occurrences On campus
Criminal offense 2009 2010 2011
a. Murder/Non-negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
b. Negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
c. Sex offenses - Forcible 3 5 2
d. Sex offenses - Non-forcible 1 0 0
e. Robbery 12 5 9
f. Aggravated assault 17 10 9
g. Burglary 31 13 47
h. Motor vehicle theft 12 13 10
i. Arson 3 3 3
Criminal Offenses - On-campus Student Housing Facilities
Total occurrences in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities
Criminal offense 2009 2010 2011
a. Murder/Non-negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
b. Negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
c. Sex offenses - Forcible 3 2 1
d. Sex offenses - Non-forcible 1 0 0
e. Robbery 0 0 0
f. Aggravated assault 3 3 2
g. Burglary 8 2 31
h. Motor vehicle theft 0 0 0
i. Arson 0 1 0
Criminal Offenses - Noncampus
Total occurrences in
or on Noncampus buildings or properties
Criminal offense 2009 2010 2011
a. Murder/Non-negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
b. Negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
c. Sex offenses - Forcible 0 0 0
d. Sex offenses - Non-Forcible 0 0 0
e. Robbery 0 0 0
f. Aggravated assault 0 1 0
g. Burglary 0 0 0
h. Motor vehicle theft 1 0 0
i. Arson 0 0 0
Caveat:
Criminal Offenses - Public Property
Total occurrences on Public Property
Criminal offense 2009 2010 2011
a. Murder/Non-negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
b. Negligent manslaughter 0 0 0
c. Sex offenses - Forcible 0 0 0
d. Sex offenses - Non-forcible 0 0 0
e. Robbery 0 0 0
f. Aggravated assault 1 0 0
g. Burglary 0 0 0
h. Motor vehicle theft 0 1 0
i. Arson 0 0 0
I disagree. I believe that for some men, rape is what occurs when normal urges are not controlled by societal inhibitions. In those cases the urge is sexual. In other crimes, other urges are not inhibited. Anger is not controlled in assaults, envy or greed are not controlled in theft, etc.
A step down the road in the breakdown of the societal inhibitions concerning sexual ethics is the concept of consent. At that point the word 'rape' will lose its meaning, the way 'marriage' has.
The school body is 30,225 students, 51% female. So, 15,415 women.
For 25% of them to be raped in a 4 year period, there would need to be 3,853 rapes.
Campus security reported 8,7,3 in the last three years. 18 assaults in 3 years.
So in a 4 year period, perhaps 2% of the women would be raped.
And try to tell a pretty woman that she doesn’t attract any more crazy, negative attention than a homely woman. Yeah, right.
Anybody who claims that they know what does, and does not, cause every single rape that happens, is wrong.
Some men clearly rape because they have uncontrollable urges. Some are lustful. Some rape for sexual gratification (heck, I bet more than just some, if you include those who get sexual gratification from the power).
Saying that rape is not sexually gratifying is like saying you can’t get pregnant from rape — I mean, if the man isn’t sexually gratified, there will be no semen to impregnate the victim.
And maybe it is only in the movies where drunk men end up raping the heroine because they are attracted to her. But I doubt it.
Rape is an act of physical violence. That doesn’t mean that the PURPOSE of rape is physical violence.
And of course, this completely ignores date rape and “lack of informed consent” rape, the first being a case where there was clearly sexual attraction but something at some point changes for one partner but not the other; and the second being a case where the woman and man are both engaging but not necessarily because of a choice (like if they are both drunk, or if they are on drugs purposely or through nefarious means).
I think the “Rape is never about” people cause great disservice, because they convince some women that nothing they do can matter, and then those women might do things that put them at greater risk, thinking there is no such thing as “greater risk”.
Or that dressing or acting in certain ways won’t get her more of that type of attention. Most of the guys chasing her around are just idiots or jerks.
But out on the margin these are exactly the type of guys who are serial rapists.
I think we're already partway down that road.
The idea of casual sex has already degraded, IMO, the idea that rape is a particularly horrific crime. It makes sex no big deal, even sex with strangers.
And if it's no big deal, why should forcing someone to engage in it be considered any more awful than forcing them to engage in some other activity that is no big deal, like drinking a cup of coffee with them. The element of force is the same in either case, the only real difference is the sexual aspect of rape.
I hasten to add that I don't believe this. I happen to believe that sex is a big deal and should never be engaged in casually, in fact not outside of marriage. I believe rape is one of the worst crimes and sins possible, but I think it's difficult for the "sex is no big deal" types to explain logically why they agree with me on that point.
Absolutely. Women do not have to appear in burkas but they do need to think about where they are going and what they are wearing. But if you are a gorgeous woman, you are going to attract attention from nuts - as well as normal men. This divorce from sex in rape is NOT helping.
It is an act of physical violence and domination that is not motivated by sexual needs. It has little to do with the need for sex."
Are you unaware that, prior to the rise of feminist hags in the 1960s, rape was considered a sex crime perpetrated by men who couldn't control their sexual desires? The radical fembots redefined rape in order to make it all about the oppression of women by the evil patriarchal male...or "domination", as you put it.
You're parroting the leftwing line very well, but you don't know what you're talking about.
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