The forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
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Are annual female rape and male "made to penetrate" rates similar in the US?
In the 2010 Summary Report of the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, there are two figures that are surprisingly similar:
In Table 2.1, they claim the 12-month weighted rate of a US woman being raped is 1.1%.
In Table 2.2,…

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Does legalizing prostitution decrease sexual violence against all women?
In the debate about legalizing prostitution, yes or no, one claim is the legalization will decrease sexual violence against all women.
For example from answers of pros in the link provided:
"It is estimated that if prostitution were legalized in…

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Are these rape statistics correct regarding rapes of black women by white men between 2003 and 2008 in USA?
I recently saw this picture:
The image links to this DOJ document.
A similar image gives the following sources from the USA Bureau of Justice for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 (table 42 in all cases).
Somehow, the perfect 0 score for 5…

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Did Golda Meir make this quote about curfews for women?
From Why We Can’t Stay Silent on Germany’s Mass Sex Assaults
Former Israeli prime minster Golda Meir may have done and said many
things people disagree with, but one of her stances is difficult to
argue with. When there was an outbreak of…

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Were fathers arrested while trying to rescue their daughters from rape in Britain at least on two occasions?
Front Page Mag (a blog for the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center) quotes an unnamed report that UK authorities were complicit in the support of sexually abusive Muslims:
The police did their part… for the Muslim rapists.
The report heard…

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Did Ivana Trump claim under oath that she had been raped by Donald Trump?
The New Yorker article "Documenting Trump's Abuse of Women" (24 October 2016) recounts Trump biographer Harry Hurt III's claim that Ivana Trump said in a sworn deposition she had been raped by Donald Trump:
The part of the book that caused the most…

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Have 5% of Australian Catholic priests been charged with child sexual abuse offences?
From The Monthly: Letting Catholic priests into Australia was a mistake
There are around 3000 Catholic priests in Australia, plus a few
hundred retirees. Of these, an astonishing one in 20 has been charged
with child sexual abuse offences. And…

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Until 2016, did Germany require rape victims to physically resist their attackers?
From The Independent Germany to tighten rape laws in wake of Cologne attacks, but a search for Google News of "rape Germany laws" also gives matches for The Daily Mail, and Russia Today:
Currently, victims must prove they resisted physically and…

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Did Muslim immigrants rape over 300 Swedish children in seven months of 2013?
From Top Conservative News:
Muslim immigrants raped over 300 Swedish children in seven months of 2013
In the first seven months of 2013, over 1,000 Swedish women reported being raped by Muslim immigrants. Over 300 of those were under the age of…
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Were "comfort women" well-paid?
"Comfort women" is a commonly used euphemism for sex slaves used by the Japanese army during World War II.
Negationists argue that "Comfort women" were not sex slaves, and make the specific claim that they were well paid, which would be inconsistent…

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Were the vast majority of people on the National Sex Offender Registry children when they committed their crime?
In "Planet America extra podcast (PEP)" 25 Sep (At 1 hour 27 minutes) Dr David Smith made the following claim:
"The national sex offender registry is a disaster in all kinds of respects, the biggest disaster being the vast majority of people on it…

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Did a German judge acquit a man of rape because he is Turkish?
Tyler O'Neil, assistant editor at PJ Media, titles in an article from 2017-04-21:
German Judge Says Turkish Man's Forced Violent Sex Is 'Culturally' Not Rape
The article goes into lot of details, the girl could not run properly for two weeks.
I…

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Were German police instructed to give information about crimes committed by refugees to the press only upon request?
From German authorities accused of migrant attack cover up:
Elsewhere, a high-ranking Frankfurt police officer told Bild, strict
instructions had been given not to volunteer information about crimes
committed by refugees.
Details should only be…

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Was John Maynard Keynes a child molester?
I was reading Conservapedia's article on John Maynard Keynes and pederasty:
Keynes and his friends made numerous
trips to the resorts surrounding the
Mediterranean. At the resorts, little
boys were sold by their families to
bordellos which…

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Cause of Catholic clergy sexual abuse is the attitude of the 60's and 70's
Is there corroborating evidence to support the arguments put forward in a recent study by the U.S. Conference of Bishops that
neither celibacy nor homosexuality can be blamed for the clerical abuse scandal within the U.S. Catholic…

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