Facts about Rape (virtual, America, experience, pray, service) - Page 2

Hema · #11 11-11-2006, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by PolyReverend

So rape is a punishment for being there?
For not paying attention to ones surrounding?

I have to totally disagree with this faulty thinking.
Rape is not a punishment.
And that is exactly what you have reduced it to with this post.
Rape is a crime.

I agree with you brother. If that was the case, then the same can be said for robbery and murder. Oh! It was the victims fault because he/she was alone in the street at night.

Everyone has the right to go out in public and be safe. What about people who are in their homes when they get raped. I know an OLD woman who was raped in her home by a neighbour.

Ðanisty · #12 11-11-2006, 01:42 PM

In the state of Georgia, rape is defined by forced vaginal penetration by a penis. Anything other than that is sexual battery or criminal sodomy. The maximum punishment for rape is execution, but offenders only usually get a minimum sentence which is really low. The minimum sentence for sexual battery or criminal sodomy is much higher, but not punishable by execution. So basically what ends up happening is that men can not by definition be raped, but their attackers (if it ever gets brought to police attention) are more likely to pay for their crime. Twisted, isn't it?

lilithu · #13 11-11-2006, 02:15 PM

I've heard much higher numbers:
1 in 4 for women
1 in 10 for men

mostly harmless · #14 11-11-2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Pardus

I'm going to say something that will probably annoy people, but since most of the time those who react have never been raped themselves i really don't care.

"It is never your fault" is one of the stupidest lines ever.

Alot of the time victims have put themselves into a position of danger, now i do not excuse the rapist because noone should be raped, but even alot of victims realise that it is partly their fault it happened and either they learn to deal with that fact or live in denial which is not healthy.

It might have stopped happening to me earlier if i had taken certain actions, but we must live with our mistakes, but i find the biggest problem is the rest of society, there is no help for victims nor potential abusers because we do not wish to understand why it happens, we only wish to punish after the fact.

Oh?
And what of people who are raped by someone they knew and trusted. Is it then their fault also? Should we trust no one?

A woman (or man) should not have to worry about someone attacking them and raping them if they aren't paying full attention to everything going on around them. To say it is the victim's fault because she (or he) wasn't paying attention, or was dressed a certain way, or WHATEVER is horribly disrespectful and demeaning.
DISRESPECTFUL AND DEMEANING.

GeneCosta · #15 11-11-2006, 02:56 PM

I think rape without consent (not all statutory) should be taken more seriously in the courts. This fifteen year crap is bogus. By all means I'm not in favor of executing them, but I'm very close to thinking rapists deserve life -- at the very least something that will show future offenders that they're going to be throwing away almost everything they love.

Mestemia · #16 11-11-2006, 03:39 PM

I believe that if a man is convicted of rape he has 30 days to present enough evidence to show his innosence, in which case it is reviewed and dealt with accordingly.

Otherwise he is to be castrated.
Period.
No exceptions.

Mercy Not Sacrifice · #17 11-11-2006, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PolyReverend

So rape is a punishment for being there?
For not paying attention to ones surrounding?

I have to totally disagree with this faulty thinking.
Rape is not a punishment.
And that is exactly what you have reduced it to with this post.
Rape is a crime.

I agree completely. As I mentioned here, women do not ask for it, ever.

Mestemia · #18 11-12-2006, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercy Not Sacrifice

I agree completely. As I mentioned here, women do not ask for it, ever.

If a woman asks for it then it is consentual and not rape, by definition.
However, if right in the middle of it the woman says stop and the man does not stop then from that moment it is rape.

Gentoo · #19 11-13-2006, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Mestemia

Otherwise he is to be castrated.
Period.
No exceptions.

I don't think that castrating would do much good, honestly. I can see that backfiring, in the sense that the rapist will just be more careful about who he chooses, where he takes them, how he abducts them so he'd have a better chance at getting away with it.

I also heard somewhere that castrating doesn't do much damage to a man's sex drive... even though it's removing the primary source of testostorone... I don't know where I heard that, I could be making it up... please correct me if I'm wrong.