In legal terms, Rape falls into two categories - forced and statutory. Forced Rape is sexual intercourse with an unwilling partner. Statutory Rape refers to sexual intercourse with a minor, someone under the age of consent.

THE CRIME

Some rapes are planned, and sex is thought to be more impulsive, spur-of-the moment crimes. Some rapes seem motivated, by a desire to control the other person. Others are more clearly sexually motivated, although many rapist experience erectile failure or fail to reach. In Sadistic rape, the rapist severely injures the victim by inserting foreign objects into her vagina or pulling and burning her breast and some murder their victims. Date–Rape victims tend to be blamed for the rape as the victims associated willingly with the men who raped them.

THE VICTIM, THE ATTACK, THE AFTERMATH

Rape victims are usually traumatized by the attack, both physically and mentally. Two weeks after a rape, 94% of women suffer acute stress, and nine months later, 42% suffer from full-blown PTSD.

In the minutes or seconds preceding rape, the woman begins to recognize her dangerous situation but can scarcely believe what is about to happen to her. During the assault, she is first and foremost in great fear for her life. The Physical violation of her body and the ripping away of her freedom of choice are enraging, but the victim also usually feels her vulnerability in not being able to fight off her typically stronger attacker. Moreover, the attacker usually has the element of surprise and sometimes a weapon to intimidate and coerce. Resistance in seriously compromised by terror for weeks or months following the rape many victims feed extremely tense and deeply humiliated. They feel guilt that they were unable to fight harder and may have angry thoughts of revenge. Many have nightmares about the rape. Depression and loss of self-Esteem are common. Some victims of rape develop phobias about being outdoors or indoors or in the dark, depending on where the rape took place. They may also fear being alone or in crowds or having anyone behind them. Sometimes an unwanted pregnancy results from a rape, and justifiable concern about sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, adds to the trauma of the attack.

THE RAPIST

Men with their generally superior strength can usually overpower women buttresses the view that rape has served in this past and still serves to control and intimidate women.

According to Brown miller, being in the armed forces encourages a perverse sense of masculine superiority and creates a climate in which rape is acceptable.

WHO IS RAPIST

What many rapists probably have in common is unusually high hospitality towards women, arising from, beliefs on having been betrayed, deceived or demeaned them or from exposure to parental violence and physical or sexual abuse during childhood. Reports from rapists indicate that the urge rape is heightened by feelings of loneliness, anger, humiliation, inadequacy and rejection. Some rapists also seem to have problem distinguishing friendliness from seductiveness and in accurately reading cues from a woman indicating that she wants intimacies to cases. They often lack social-skills, have low self-esteem and have little empathy for their victims Hudson.
 

 

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