The forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
Questions tagged [sexual-abuse]
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Do orangutans rape women?
Following up from the lions-attacking-menstruating-women question, I read an account that claimed male orangutans will rape a human woman, especially if she is in menstruated. Are there verified occurrences?
Example of source with this claim:…
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Did Michael Jackson sexually abuse children?
There's been endless controversy over the late 90s and early-ish 2000s about Michael Jackson and sex allegations with children. This whole article is about it.
This is the original article from BBC in 1993 when the allegations first hit the…
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Did these politicians say these quotes regarding rape?
DISCLAIMER: IMAGE CONTAINS QUOTES THAT RELATE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE
I recently saw a meme on Quora that claims to show quotes from conservative politicians arguing against abortion in the cases of rape.
Meme in spoiler tags:
Objectively,…
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Has Congress's Office of Compliance secretly settled sexual harassment lawsuits?
Info Wars host, Mike Cernovich claims, via a recent Change.org petition that Congress has sealed settled sexual harassment lawsuits from the public record?
What if I told you that Congressmen settled over 250 sexual harassment lawsuits using…
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Do an overwhelming majority of rapes not involve relatives?
From a tweet thread started by https://twitter.com/VocalFriez/status/1046487752429072384 , a citation is made of RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), saying that the overwhelming majority of rapes do not involve relatives:
Rape,…
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Is there evidence that women who said they were sexually assaulted by Trump lied for money?
According to Wikipedia, there are at least 19 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment. Trump has recently claimed:
I was accused by, I believe it was four women," Trump said. "I was accused by four or five women who got paid a…
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Were many Ukrainian and Polish women raped by Soviet soldiers during the WWII?
This[1] site claims:
It's not that the idea of rape as a weapon of war is implausible. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian, Polish and most of all German women were raped by Red Army soldiers as they advanced through eastern Europe in 1944/45. The…
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Are rape vans real?
Wiktionary defines a rape van as
A vehicle with a large interior body having no windows or blocked
windows, for which it would be easy to lure or force a person inside
and thereafter conceal their presence in the vehicle in order to
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Do UK background checks successfully ‘prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups’?
When working with children in the UK, it's common to hear griping about the restrictions and administrative overhead imposed by compliance with the Disclosure & Barring (DBS) regime. Despite this criticisms, however, it's generally accepted that it…
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Do Australian pedophiles travel to Southeast Asia to abuse children there?
Australia is considering a law that would ban international travel for registered pedophiles. The reasoning seems to be the assumption that they frequently travel to Asia or south pacific islands for the main purpose to abuse children.
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Does Dubai impose prison time or even the death penalty for victims of rape?
In Dubai, if a person becomes a victim of a rape, and it's clear that s/he was forced (that is, the victim is not being suspected or accused of voluntary extra-marital sex), could the justice in Dubai impose a prison sentence or even the death…
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Did Muhammed al-Arifi issue a fatwa permitting rape of Syrian women?
Taslima Nasrin claimed in her blog that Saudi cleric Mohammed al-Arifi issued "a fatawa to rape!". She quoted the following excerpt from this liveleak post as evidence.
A Wahhabi religious cleric in Saudi Arabia, Muhammed al-Arifi, who is
very…
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Did Yasir al-Ajlawni declare that it is lawful to rape any "non-Sunni Syrian woman"?
This report claims:
Fides sources point out that, through social networks, the fatwa was
widespread in Syria produced by Yasir al-Ajlawni—A Salafi sheikh of
Jordanian origin, resident in Damascus—who declared lawful, for
opponents of the…
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Is this protest sign referring to Europe?
Is the above picture, of a woman holding a sign with the text
You can get raped but not protest against rape
# World's largest democracy
referring to Europe?
Example tweets: 1 (containing a hashtag about sexual assault by refugees in Germany), 2…
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Have 10-15% of the general population had at least one incestuous sexual contact when under the age of consent?
I found these numbers in the page Incest at Wikipedia:
Incest between an adult and a person under the age of consent is considered a form of child sexual abuse[70][71] that has been shown to be one of the most extreme forms of childhood abuse; it…
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