Sexual Assault In The Bluest Eye

Sexual Assault Affects A Person’s Psyche

Sexual assault is a sensitive subject when it comes to most people. No one can tell whether the person they come across not has been sexualy assaulted before. Sure, there are signs such as withdrawing from normal activities, or feeling “down”, low self-esteem, anxiety or worry about situations that did not seem to cause anxiety in the past, avoiding specific situations or place, etc. Sexual assault is never an easy bridge to cross and the road to recovery is never an easy route. In the “Bluest Eye” written by Toni Morrison, it tells a story in the narrative of Claudia MacTeer. She tells the story of childhood memories about what happened to Pecola through season and the influential characters

Whether it be a woman or man, child or adult, a sexual assault can be the most traumatizing encounter in a person's life.There are different types of sexual assaults that can happen. There are child sexual assault, sexual assault of men and boys, intimate partner sexual violence, incest, drug- facilitated sexual assault, etc. Ages of rape victims could range from newborns to elders and can happen at any time. According to RAINN, The term sexual assault refers to sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the victim. Some forms of sexual assault include: Attempted rape, fondling or unwanted sexual touching, forcing a victim to perform sexual acts, such as oral sex or penetrating the perpetrator’s body and penetration of the victim’s body, also known as

III: Effects of force and violence” discusses the psychological pain women experience after the had been assaulted and which ones gets affected more. In the text it says “The hypothesis applied to rape victims argues that in human evolutionary history raped females had increased fitness as a result of mental pain, because the pain forced them to focus their attention on the fitness-reducing circumstances surrounding rape. Some of the hypothesis' predictions about the psychological pain of rape victims are examined using a data set of 790 rape victims who were interviewed about their psychological traumatization within five days after the assault. Earlier analyses of these data have indicated that, as predicted, both a victim's age and marital status are proximate causes of the magnitude of psychological pain following rape: Reproductive-aged women appear to have been more severely traumatized by rape than older women or girls and married women more than unmarried women.“ This text shows which female experience more psychological pain then the