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  2. Rape myth - Wikipedia

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    Rape myths originate from various cultural stereotypes, such as traditional gender roles, acceptance of interpersonal violence, and misunderstanding the nature of sexual assault. [1] Matthew Hale , a British jurist in the 17th century, suggests that rape is "an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended against ...

  3. 'You lured him in': Rape myths and what we still get wrong ...

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    Three quarters of sexual offence victims report being asked at least one question in court based on what campaigners say are rape myths and stereotypes, according to recent research from Victim ...

  4. Unacknowledged rape - Wikipedia

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    Sexual scripts are stereotypes told about rape, which limit understandings of assault. These scripts can be held at a cultural level, interpersonal level, or intrapersonal level. [ 6 ] Rape scripts also narrow down one's idea of what sexual assault is, prompting one to not acknowledge what happened to them.

  5. Sexual assault - Wikipedia

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    Due to rape or sexual assault, or the threat of, there are many resulting impacts on income and commerce at the macro level. Excluding child abuse, each rape or sexual assault costs $5,100 in tangible losses (lost productivity, medical and mental health care, police/fire services, and property damage) and $81,400 in lost quality of life. [49]

  6. False accusation of rape - Wikipedia

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    For example, the majority of sexual assaults are committed by someone the person knows as opposed to a stranger. [55] Sacks says, the media also normalizes sexual violence in general, often blames the person who reported the assault, and commonly expresses sympathy for the alleged perpetrators instead of the victim. [56]

  7. Rape of males - Wikipedia

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    There is a myth that a male sexual assault victim will become a perpetrator themselves. This myth is very damaging to victims, both to their mental states and to how people treat them. [ 29 ] Elizabeth Donovan, a psychotherapist, stated that males have the added burden of facing a society that does not believe that rape can happen to them at ...

  8. Factors associated with being a victim of sexual violence

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    Young women are usually found to be more at risk of rape than older women. [2] [3] [4] According to data from justice systems and rape crisis centres in Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the United States, between one-third and two-thirds of all victims of sexual assault are aged 15 years or less.

  9. Rape culture - Wikipedia

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    Rape culture is a setting, as described by some sociological theories, in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to that setting's attitudes about gender and sexuality. [1] [2] Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut-shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by sexual violence ...