Sex coercion Flashcards
Rape
Nonconsenting oral, anal, or vaginal penetration obtained by force, by threat of force or when victim is incapable of giving consent
Sexual assault
Nonconsenting sexual contact, including rape, attempted rape and sexual touching
Posstraumatic stress disorder
Long-term psychological distress suffered by someone who has experiences a terrifying event
Posttraumatic growth
Positive life changes and psychological development exposure to trauma
Marital rape
The rape of a person by their current of former spouse
Causes of rape
- Victim-precipitated rape: asking for it
- Psychopathology of rapist
- Feminist: link between sex and power
- sociological: sexual citizenship and sexual geographies
Victem-prepicitated rape
The view that the rape is a result of the woman asking for it
Sexual citzenship
The acknowledgement of one’s own right to sexual self-determination and the same right in others
Sexual geographies
Space and the people who control the space
Rape culture
Deeply entrenched cultural attitudes about gender and sexuality that shape people’s attitudes about rape; rape myths are an integral part of rape culture
Preventing rape
- avoid hazardous situations
- communicate your limits clearly
- be assertive
- trust your instincts
- respond physically
Sexual solicitation of youth on the internet
Cases in which a sexual predator meets a child or adolescent online, gains the youth’s confidence, and arranges an in-person meeting
Sextortion
Online threaths to expose sexual images with the goal of coercing victims to provide additional prictures or to engage in sex
Incest
Sexual activity between blood relatives
Pedophilia
An adult having sexual activity with a prepubescent child
