What percentage of women and men have been raped? - ANSWER 15% of women, 2% of men
What percentage of women and men have been battered? - ANSWER 22% of women, 7% of men
Assault by men is more serious: men are several
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What percentage of women and men have been raped? - ANSWER 15% of women, 2% of men
What percentage of women and men have been battered? - ANSWER 22% of women, 7% of men
Assault by men is more serious: men are several times more likely to "beat up," choke,try to drown, use/threaten with gun or knife. Women are twice as likely to need medical care following assault by intimate.
What percentage of women and men have been stalked? - ANSWER 8% of women 2% of men
How do women initiate of justify sexual encounters? - ANSWER letting it "just happen"
-letting it happen became a strategy for making it happen without facing the psychological and social consequences of appearing to willing
doing "everything but"
-engaging in any type of sexualized behavior other than intercourse
-ex: oral sex, doesn't count as sex until "actual sex"
Choosing to be a "bad girl"
-girl who is openly and unapologetically sexual, who derives a sense of pleasure from refusing to comply with social prescriptions for being a "good girl"
-decides to become a "wh*re" or "sl*t"
What strategies do women use for managing power in hetero-relations? - ANSWER Becoming a desired object
-inspired by the pleasing woman discourse, many women expended incredible energy trying to position themselves as desirable objects
Playing with Fire
-women derive a feeling of power from through their ability to face sexualized danger and overcome the odds
-eroticize danger instead of victimization
Being the one who can change hi
-obtain power from trying to change an aloof, selfish, or abusice man into a sensitive partner
-"he was like a challenge to me"
-be the one and only person with whom he dared to be intimate
How do women attempt to manage sexual encounters that are physically or emotionally hurtful? - ANSWER Stroking egos
-telling partners that they were enjoying painful or even abusive encounters, when in fact they were not.
-ways for women to remain "pleasing women" by not complaining or disrupting a man's pleasure
Mastering the male body
-women learned how to manipulate men's bodies to make them ejaculate quickly, so that they could end unpleasant sexual experiences as soon as possible
Trying to Like It
-women try to feel excited in the midst of forced sex, so they could at least lessen the emotional pain they were feeling.
-women also use this in attempt to prevent an experience from "qualifying" as being rape
Hoping he'll notice
-young women rely on nonverbal cues to indicate their displeasure to a man during a sexual encounter.
Why do so few women define their own forced sexual encounters as rape? - ANSWER They form attributions:"i should have known better"
They Name it: "For her it was rape, for me it was just complicated"
refuse to be a victim: transform the meanings
-the strategies they use to arouse men make them believe that's the reason they were responsible.
"if only I hadn't.."
-women who hold images of "real" rape as a violent, isolated act committed by a stranger are unlikely to names themselves victims of rape
"together" women aren't victims: "i'd like to think I had enough strength"
-competent, adult women are too sophisticated in their judgement to be lured into a position where they could be victimized
the risk of not finding support: "why stick your neck out?'
diminished expectations: "i don't really think men get it"
-fully expected to be dissatisfied in their romantic and sexual relationships with men.
"he was so good to me, i could never call it abuse"
-"this is what I owe him"
"i couldn't imagine that happening to me"
How do women attempt to reduce the psychic damage from their forced sexual encounters? - ANSWER -taking responsibility
-relinquishing rights
-making higher meaning-try t understand their mistreatment as part of a larger, more hopeful picture of a healthy relationships or fulfilling encounter
-turning the tables-mentally reconstruct their own experiences of exploitation turning them instead into evidence that they, and no their abusers had the last laugh. ex: girl tells guys they can tell others she's his girlfriend, as long as he does stuff for her. Girl destroys exes car
comodify - ANSWER to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold.
What are the results of focusing the target to be on the buyer and not the seller, on prostitution in Sweden? - ANSWER A study issued Friday by a government agency in Stockholm found that street prostitution had been cut by more than half since 1995 and that the number of men admitting to having purchased sex was down more than 40 percent.
Or...did it make prostitution go underground?
The law is forcing women who sell sex into more dangerous situations, it said, arguing that
transactions have become faster and more furtive because men are afraid of the police, leading women to jump into cars without first checking if the driver is drunk, high or otherwise threatening. And the number of Swedes in favor of a ban on the sale of sex as well as its purchase appears to have grown.
Historical Conceptions of
Female Masturbation - ANSWER Sin
Cause of illness
Throughout: Threat to social stability
Youth and pornography access - ANSWER 42% of 10-17 year old internet users (male
and female) saw internet porn in the last
year (2007 data)
AVG age first viewed porn = 11
BUT, 2/3 saw it accidentally.
Even by age 17, only 10% of girls want to see
porn.
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