Rape Culture Research Paper

The Rape Culture Issue Over the past year or two, the Anti-Rape Culture Movement has gained massive popularity all over the world. This movement has drawn the question, “has rape culture become a societal normality?” front and center as reporters and social movement leaders alike go head-to-head over this argument. Rape culture has been called both a global problem and a fad in society. A huge movement has risen up in an effort to expose rapists and sex crime supporters, but a large amount of people don’t believe that sex crimes are as big of a problem as they are. While different parts of society believe that rape culture isn’t real, it has become more and more apparent in society over the last decade as more people are willing to speak

Ancient Hebrew women were chosen by a man and if they didn’t have an arranged marriage the man would claim her physically. The only time rape was considered a crime was if another man raped a married woman, and it wasn’t uncommon to blame the woman for the sex crime even if it wasn’t her fault, resulting in the women being stoned to death. It wasn’t until the 13th century that laws, known as the Statutes of Westminster, were established to protect women that had been sexually assaulted, but those laws weren’t heavily enforced at the time. The only time a woman could get justice for her assault was if she met a certain criteria: she was unmarried and wealthy. In the late 1700s the topic of women’s rights came front and center because of Molly Wollstonecraft, a woman that wanted to fight for other women to get a full education, voting rights, etc, along with abolishing slavery. Wollstonecraft and a slew of other empowered ladies and a few supportive men paved the way to the Anti-Slavery Convention (1837) and the Women’s Rights Convention (1848). The issue of race and rape was a battle that had only just begun, as women everywhere were fighting for other women, especially those still considered slaves. An excerpt from a speech by Polly Poskin, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault,