Prelims Flashcards
ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
R.A 9262
“any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act,
unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to
traffic women’s sexuality, using coercion, threats of
harm or physical force, by any person, regardless of the
relationship with the victim, in any setting, including but
not limited to home, school, prison, the streets and at
work.
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SEXUAL ASSAULT
refers to any sexual, physical, verbal, or visual act that
forces a person to engage in sexual contact against their will or without their affirmative consent.
Sexual assault
10 signs you are being sexually harassed
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SIGNS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
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CONSENT
● A clear “yes” to sexual activity.
● One knows and understand what’s going on
● One knows what he/she wanted to do
● One is able to say what he/she wanted to do
● One is sober
There is no legal consent if a person is:
● Threatened, forced, coerced, or manipulated into agreeing to
engage in a sexual activity
● Not physically able to engage in a sexual activity (when one is
drunk, high, drugged, passed out, or asleep)
● Not mentally able to give consent (due to illness or disability)
● Younger than 12 years old (in the Philippines)
Is rape or sexual assault perpetrated by someone
unknown to the survivor.
Stranger Rape
The perpetrator rapidly and brutally assaults the victim with no prior contact.
Blitz Sexual Assault:
usually occur at night in a public place.
Blitz assaults
The perpetrator works to gain trust and confidence before assaulting.
Contact Sexual Assault
Sexual abuse by a relative, sexual contact/abuse between family members.
Incest
The survivor and the perpetrator are known to each other, whether by passing acquaintance or someone the survivor knows intimately.
Acquaintance Rape
Is a form of child abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity, period.
Child Sexual Abuse
Unlawful intercourse with a minor
Statutory Rape
Women who have been physically abused by their partner have often experienced sexual abuse
Spousal/Partner Rape
– the state of deviating away from the standard / norm
Deviancy
– deviation from the “normal” sexual acts
Sexual Deviancy
This concept refers to behaviors that involve individuals seeking erotic gratification through means that are considered odd, different, or unacceptable to either most or influential persons in one’s community.
Sexual Deviancy
What is “Normal” Sex?
What is normal to one person may be quite offensive or even bizarre to another. Even as one ages from adolescence to older adulthood, private sexual standards may change
SEXUAL STANDARDS DEFINING NORMAL SEX
STATISTICAL STANDARD
● Defining criterion are the numbers
● If more than 50% of the population practice a certain sexual
behavior, it is then considered normal;
● Validates normalcy for a person / group of persons who practice that
particular sexual act;
● Can be dangerous; it can define lawbreaking as normal.
SEXUAL STANDARDS DEFINING NORMAL SEX
CULTURAL STANDARD
● Based on the set normal rules and regulations with changing
sanctions that accommodate transgression of its rule, which often
take the form of laws, statutes, and ordinances;
● The concept of what behavior is appropriate and what behavior is
deviant is relative; it depends on the norms of the society at a
specific time.
● Sexual acts are based on the commandments of the faith as to what act is wrong or right, son or not;
RELIGIOUS NORMALCY
○ Sex is something that is a duty of one spouse for the other, not to be enjoyed but endured;
● Traditional Sexual Philosophy:
Sexual acts belong to those who are legally and spiritually married and done only under specific condition.
● Traditional Sexual Philosophy:
SEXUAL STANDARDS DEFINING NORMAL SEX
SUBJECTIVE STANDARD
● Legitimizes behavior in the same fashion as the other standards, but
at a personal level;
● This involves how a person personally rationalizes the act.
● A person must feel that what he/she is doing is not only normal, but
“really not that bad”
- Ranges from simple to complex or it may be escalating
Fantasy
– inanimate object to which one has attached sexual feelings
Fetish
If you’re calling someone “daddy” in bed, you’re
engaging in light ——.
Age Play
is a sex act that focuses on stimulating your partner’s anus via licking, penetrating with the tongue, kissing, or any other type of oral
stimulation.
Anilingus
ELEMENTS OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
- Fantasy- Ranges from simple to complex or it may be escalating
- Symbolism
Fetish– inanimate object to which one has attached sexual feelings
● A ____ subcategory, this involves becoming sexually aroused from harsh or scratchy surfaces such as sandpaper or steel wool.
Fetish
BDSM
is a form of restraint. It’s a sex act that falls within the BDSM umbrella, which is an acronym for “bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism” and a group of common sexual fantasies.
Bondage
is when a heterosexual couple agrees to both explore the turn-on of the female sleeping with other men and humiliating her male partner about the fact
that she’s sleeping with someone else
Cuckolding
, also known as sitophilia, refers to a kind of fetish in which individuals are turned on by food in an erotic setting.
Food play
● refers to lightly choking on an object to the point of making gagging sounds. Often people with penises will get off on their partner gagging on them—and the knowledge that they’re big enough to induce gagging noises.
Gagging
is the sexual arousal from having sex or masturbating in front of mirrors or reflective surfaces.
Katoptronophilia
is deriving pleasure from the high sensation most
often referred to as pain, be that physical or emotional
Masochism
is another common kink, which involves people taking on characters outside of their day-to-day lives as part of a sex scene.
Role playing
, also referred to as hair fetishism, is the erotic
attraction to hair. The hair in question can be human hair—armpit, chest, pubic, head—or even animal fur, but it is most commonly human head hair.
Trichophilia
is someone who derives sexual pleasure from watching others get it on. When we speak about ____ from a kink perspective, we’re talking about consensualvoyeurism.
voyeur
– isolated part of the body which sexual feelings had been attached (e.g. breasts, legs, buttocks)
Partialism
- The compulsive feelings well up inside the serial sex offender and launch him into action
Compulsion
• Proposes that individuals learn criminal acts and deeds and acquire motivations to commit crime from those things and people around them.
Social Learning Theory
“Crime is learned thru experiences and people involved in those experiences.”
Social Learning Theory
there are three phases in which violent antisocial behavior is learned in interaction with an individual’s environment:
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–The individual begins to assimilate into his or her personality characteristics of others by the process of observational learning.
The Acquisition Phase
- factors that propel an individual into action
Instigation Mechanism
- They form the process by which inappropriate or aggressive tendencies are kept in the personal repertoire of individuals.
Maintaining Mechanisms
Steps Involved in the Observational Learning and Modeling Process:
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In order to learn, you need to be paying attention. Anything that detracts your attention is going to have a negative effect on observational learning. If the model interesting or there is a novel aspect to the situation, you are far more likely to dedicate your full attention to learning.
Attention:
The ability to store information and is important part of the learning process.
—- can be affected by a number of factors, but the ability to pull up information later and act on it is vital to observational learning.
Retention:
Once you have paid attention to the model and retained the information, it is time to actually perform the behavior you observed. Further practice of the learned behavior leads to improvement and skill advancement.
Reproduction:
Finally, in order for observational learning to be successful, you have to be motivated to imitate the behavior that has been modeled. Reinforcement and punishment play an important role in motivation. While experiencing these motivators can be highly effective, so can observing other experience some type of reinforcement or punishment.
Motivation:
- Psychological theories of crime suggest that some offenses may be caused by mental factors or
conflicts.
Psychodynamic Theories
Assumed that all people are born with innate drives to fulfill their wishes and urges. These drives include the motivation to eat, sleep and engage in sexual behavior to satisfy themselves and populate the species.
Psychodynamic Theories
- could develop during the phallic stage (primary focus of the libido is on the genitals) of
development, and is characterized by competition between father and son for the mother’s affection.
Oedipal Conflict
results from boys and girls discovering the differences in their genitalia.
Castration Anxiety and Penis Envy
three elements of the human psyche:
the id,
the ego, and
the superego.