One of the first two rape crisis centers, the DC Rape Crisis Center, opened in 1972, created to promote sensitivity and understanding of rape and its effects on the victim.
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Many United States rape statutes formerly precluded the prosecution of spouses, including estranged or even legally separated couples.
The Department of Justice study also found that in "about half of the incidents categorized as completed rapes, the women or man did not consider the incident to be a rape."
Marital rape first became a crime in the United States in the state of South Dakota in 1975.
Rape violates the very essence of a person's being, violating their very purpose in the deepest way.
One study concluded that as many as one in four college aged females has been a victim of either rape or attempted rape.
Some argue that rape, as a reproductive strategy, is encountered in many instances in the animal kingdom (such as ducks, geese, and certain dolphin species).
Rape, in the course of warfare, also dates back to antiquity, ancient enough to have been mentioned in the Bible.
Rape has come to be universally reviled as an unspeakable offense, at least in theory.
After being raped it is common for the victim to experience intense, and sometimes unpredictable, emotions, and they may find it hard to deal with their memories of the event.
Approaching rape through the concept of privacy also helps bypass certain social stigmas.
The rape of Europa by Zeus is represented as an abduction followed by consensual lovemaking, similar perhaps to the rape of Ganymede by Zeus, and went unpunished.
During the Acute Phase the survivor may experience shock and disbelief, or feel frozen, and may attempt to disconnect themselves from "the person who was raped."
The opportunity to rape may co-exist alongside the near certainty of getting away with it.
Women can also be charged with rape, however this is usually in situations involving underage males.
Rape is a form of assault involving the non-consensual use of the sexual organs of another person's body.
A controversial aspect of both the Islamic and Christian condemnation is that some do so because they look at rape as an act of infidelity, which undervalues the effect on the victim.
Rape, as an adjunct to warfare, was prohibited by the military codices of Richard II and Henry V (1385 and 1419 respectively).
Another problem, referred to as "second victimization," has to do with the caustic and interrogatory way the police and medical staff sometimes treat people who allege rape or sexual assault.
Some criminal codes explicitly consider all kinds of forced sexual activity to be rape, whereas in others only acts involving a coupled penis and vagina are included.
Victims may respond to the rape in either an expressive or a controlled way.
William Shakespeare included a rape in his Titus Andronicus, which gives evidence of a general awareness of the crime's presence throughout history.
The concept of rape, both as an abduction and in the sexual sense (not always distinguishable), makes its first appearance in early religious texts.
The meaning of rape in holy texts has been debated vigorously, popular religions, too, have condemned rape as a sin.
Some sociobiologists argue that our ability to understand rape, and thereby prevent it, is severely compromised because its basis in human evolution has been ignored.
Rape as an issue of power is illustrated in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird in which a black man is accused of rape.
The Greek, Persian, and Roman troops would routinely rape women and boys in the conquered towns.
Still others blame male propensity for violence, although this view is refuted by the existence of rape by females.
The rape of Chrysippus by Laius, however, is represented in darker terms, and was known in antiquity as "the crime of Laius," a term which came to be applied to all male rape.
The word "rape" originates from the Latin verb rapere: to seize or take by force.
Islam also condemns rape as a violation of both the victim and the victim's family.
Early Christianity also maintained, as paganism did not, that slave women were entitled to chastity, and that therefore a slave woman could be raped, and honored as martyrs slave women who resisted their masters.
In 1972, Ann Wolbert Burgess and Lynda Lytle Holstrom embarked on a study of the psychological effects of rape.
The concept of rape, both as an abduction and in the sexual sense (not always distinguishable), makes its first appearance in early religious texts.
Rape is generally considered one of the most serious sex crimes, however it can be very difficult to prosecute.
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