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Date Rape. While ... victim. Recent statistics show that the most common form of
rape is date rape, which comprises 78 percent of all rapes. ...
date rape. ... With new drugs and pressure from the media to be more sexually
attractive, date rape is becoming more and more of a problem. ...
Date Rape. Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, someone is sexually
assaulted. ... Date rape is a controversial and ambiguous crime. ...
Date Rape. Date Rape Matt Barone November ... cities all over the world. Date
rape generally occurs when a man is alone with a woman. ...
Date Rape. When people hear the word "rape ... in cities all over the world. Date
rape generally occurs when a man is alone with a woman. ...
Submitted by lilprincess on November 18, 2005
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Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people, in God...The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed. (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992) 2
What type of crime can have that type of effect on a person, a crime that is often the most under reported. A crime that does not affect just one person, but a whole family. That crime is rape. Rape is generally defined as forced or non-consensual sexual intercourse. Rape may be accomplished by fear, threats of harm, and or actual physical force. There is more then one type of rape from marital, to jail rape, stranger, to drug affiliated that is when penetration is accomplished when the victim is unable to give consent, or is prevented from resisting, due to being intoxicated, drugged, unconscious, or asleep and date or acquaintance rape, which will e discussed in this paper, all of those types of rape have the same result of being devastating. Date rape is not new but has recently been brought to the media’s attention, because of the new methods of rape, who is being targeted, the effects date rape has on people and the programs that have been created for those victims. 2
\"I returned to my college campus after spending the summer at home with my family. It was the week before classes began. I decided to go with my girlfriends to a party. We wanted to see our friends after the long vacation away from school. I\'m used to drinking being part of the social scene. I know my tolerance for alcohol. I know how much I can drink and still take care of myself. I was with friends so I felt safe. I had a few beers. Then a guy offered me a shot. The last thing I remember is taking the shot and getting about halfway through it. I must have passed out. I woke up the following morning on a couch in the living room of a house shared by some of the guys who were at the party. My pants were unzipped and stained. I...
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