Sexual Violence On College Campuses

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Sexual violence has significant long-term consequences for women’s role in society. Survivors of sexual violence tend to experience long term and short term emotional, physical, psychological, and reproductive health problems. Thousands of women are being sexually abused every year by both people they know and don’t know, with the help of date rape drugs, on college campuses, and even in domestic relationships. In America, there are around 321,500 victims of sexual abuse, and every 98 seconds an American is violated. Of these victims, one out of every six are women (RAINN). When people think of sexual abuse, they will most likely think of aggressive physical violence, which is not always true. Sexual coercion is any unwanted sexual activity …show more content…

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) estimates that at least 95% of all college campus rapes go unreported. Colleges around the country are taking steps to prevent incidents on campuses by increasing security, initiating bystander intervention programs, and educating the students on what it means to give someone consent. Women are usually the main victims for college campus rapes, but 5-6% of men will experience a form of sexual abuse during their college years (“Statistics”). For every one hundred cases of rape committed, approximately only two out of the hundred rapists will ever serve a day in prison. Of these rapists on college campuses, it is likely that they are serial perpetrators, committing an average of six rapes each. When a rape or sexual assault is reported, many law enforcement officials tend to believe “rape myths”, which refer to the incorrect stereotypical beliefs that “women are asking for it” or “only bad girls get raped” (“Statistics”). Abuse often occurs during domestic …show more content…

Of those victims who have reported their situations to the police, two out of three were timid to call the police and report another instance in the future. Specific ways to tell someone is in a “domestic violent relationship” is if their partner is pressuring them to act out unwanted sexual acts, verbally or physically abusing them, threatening them, leaking explicit pictures of them without consent, and even forcing themselves on their partner (“Statistics”). However, dating violence is not always physical or sexual. Intimate partner violence is putting up with treatment from one’s significant other that they would not put up from anyone else for the love of their partner. Examples of non violent or sexual ways someone can abuse their partner is by putting them down or humiliation, criticizing them or disrespecting them, making their partner feel crazy by blaming their behavior on their significant other, and acting jealous or

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