The forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
Questions tagged [sexual-abuse]
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Do 90% of rape cases in the UK go unreported?
According to this image which I've seen on facebook a number of times, 2 in 1000 rapists are falsely accused and 90% go are unreported.
I already know that the number of falsely accused rapists shown is off by a factor of 10, which leads me to…
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Are one in five children in Europe victims of sexual violence?
I was recently asked to sign a petition for a campaign against sexual violence against children.
The petition claimed that one in five children are victims of some form of sexual violence in Europe. The Council of Europe website has the following…
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Does being abused make someone more likely to be an abuser?
Does being the victim of abuse make someone more likely to commit abuse?
This is sometimes called the "Vampire theory", with the analogy that being bitten turns you into a vampire.
As an example, Ariel Castro blamed his abuse of women on being…
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Are 1 million people a year date raped?
This article claims:
Every year, an estimated 1 million people are date raped, and many of
them are victims of date-rape drugs, potent mixtures that disrupt the
central nervous system.
I suspect the "article" appears to be more advertisement…
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Did UK police agree to drop sex-offense charges in exchange for an apology?
In the United Kingdom, Community Resolution Orders give the police the powers to deal with minor offences in which the offender pleads guilty and agrees to reparations, without using the court systems to get a formal conviction.
The Daily Mirror…
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Do church congregations attract sex offenders?
On page 34 of their 2008 report Licensed to Hug: How Child Protection Policies Are Poisoning the Relationship Between the Generations and Damaging the Voluntary Sector, authors Frank Furedi & Jennie Bristow make the following bold claim (emphasis…
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Is this a photo of an actual ad posted by sex traffickers?
This image has been cited as an example of a 'sex traffiking ad' in facebook & twitter posts here:
Was this picture actually used by sex traffickers to find victims?
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Did the alleged victim of Julian Assange's Swedish sex crime say that police made it up?
In this interview with John Pilger, Julian Assange says
...here we have case where... the woman herself says the police made it up.
... But what is the rhetoric? The rhetoric is... never mentioned that the woman herself says the police made it…
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Did Turkish people commit 70–80% of the rapes in Cologne around the year 1996?
In an interview by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 2016-12-29, the journalist/feminist Alice Schwarzer said (in German):
Dass vor 20 Jahren 70 bis 80 Prozent aller Vergewaltigungen in Köln von Türken begangen wurden, war der Polizei wohlbekannt.
My…
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Have two out of only 27 Muslim refugees in Japan been arrested for sexual assault?
Have two out of only 27 Muslim refugees in Japan been arrested for sexual assault?
Example claim: Japan Accepts 27 Muslim Refugees, Immediately Gets Taste Of Islamic Gratitude and plenty of people have been blogging or tweeting the same…
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Has ISIS forced 1500 Yezidis and Christians into sexual slavery?
In this United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) press release it is claimed that 1500 Yazidi and Christian persons may have been forced into sexual slavery by ISIS. The source for these statements is the Special Representative of the…
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Are Germans buying anti-rape "safety shorts"?
From The Express: Safe shorts to STOP women joggers suffering SEX ATTACKS in Germany are sold out, January 1 2017:
AN ENTREPRENEUR from Germany has created trousers with the aim of protecting women from possible sex attacks while they are out…
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Were ISIS soldiers ordered to rape women 'to make them Muslim'?
CNN:
Headline: ISIS soldiers told to rape women 'to make them Muslim'
The 22-year-old says the militant who picked her out raped her -- but
not before trying to justify himself.
"He showed me a letter and said, 'This shows any captured women…
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Does New York City have a room for teachers suspected of sexually assaulting pupils?
This question over on Politcs.SE created a lot of argument over the pros and cons of unions in public services.
One particular comment dated January 2017 by K Dog caught my eye:
NYC is the worst. They literally have a room that holds teachers…
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Did rape crime drop by 90% in Orlando in 1966 due to women firearms training?
Are these images claims valid?
Did rapes really drop by 90%? And was it due to women having firearms training (as the image implies)?
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