Date and Acquaintance Rape

Date and Acquaintance Rape

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An acquaintance rapist often 1.) Shows signs of deep-seated anger towards women 2.) Views women as sex objects 3.) Thinks women ought to serve men's needs 4.) Makes all decisions in a relationship 5.) Idolizes women and then gets angry when they disappointed him 6.) Is not concerned about the feelings of others 7.) Accepts interpersonal violence 8.) Is mildly sociopaths 9.) Doesn't listen....he may hear you protest, but chooses to ignore it 10.) Believes consent is not important in physical intimacy 11.) Gets angry when you state limits 12.) Does not like to be intellectually challenged by, confronted by or disagreed with by women Acquaintance rape is not about love or lust. It isn't about something that "just happens" in the heat of the moment. ACQUAINTANCE RAPE IS SEXUAL VIOLENCE. There are many factors that can contribute to it for example: 1.) Sex role stereotyping Many people believe that men should be aggressive and women should be passive 2.) Mixed messages A man may think that a woman really does want to have sex with him if she actively flirts with him while saying "NO" In our society both males and females have been taught many half truths about each other. Males are taught to "score" with women :they believe a woman may say "no" but really mean "yes" and just needs a little persuasion. On the other hand females believe that flirting is an innocent and harmless game that everyone plays. Yet women are taught that they are responsible if "things get out of hand." The result of this social conditioning is a rape that both the victim and assailants may rationalize as being something less than a violent assault. 3.) Learned violence 4.) Shifting blame Rapists sometimes target aquaintances based on their belief that this relationship will decrease the chances of the victim reporting as well as dilute her credibility if she does report. Aquaintance or date rapes are very confusing to the victim, especially when she tries to identify why it happened. Many times she is told by the rapsit that she led him to do it, she asked for it, or he apologizes for the attack and she tries to find a logical reason for it. MEN DO NOT EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE SEX WITH A WOMAN EVEN IF: 1.) They have had sex before 2.) She agreed to have sex with him and then changes her mind 3.) He met her at a bar 4.) He picked her up hitch-hiking 5.) He paid for her dinner 6.) She invited him to her home late at night I

Lancet study: Teens, young adults have high risk of death from injury, violence, suicide - latimes.com

Lancet study: Teens, young adults have high risk of death from injury, violence, suicide - latimes.com

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As the world has urbanized, public health needs have changed. For most of the 20th century, epidemiologists worried about communicable diseases killing very young children. Now, a new paper in the journal the Lancet suggests, the bigger concern in many countries is mortality among young adults ages 15 to 24 -- especially young men. Modernization and urbanization may have pushed back disease. But they have made accidents, suicide and violence more common causes of death during the second decade of life.

To investigate the mortality trends, researchers led by Dr. Russell Viner of the University College London Institute of Child Health looked at the World Health Organization's mortality database from 1955 to 2004, breaking out data by age group and sex in 50 countries with good mortality data. These included nations with low-, middle- and high-income levels.

Over the study period, mortality from all causes was reduced by as much as 93% in children 1 to 4 years old, the study reported. But young men ages 15 to 24 experienced a decline in mortality of just 41% to 48%. In the period 2000-2004, mortality among young men was two to three times higher than that among young boys, the researchers said. By the late 1970s, injury was the dominant cause of death in young men. Violence and suicide accounted for one-quarter to one-third of mortality in young men between 2000 and 2004.