The forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
Questions tagged [sexual-abuse]
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Was Isaac Asimov notorious for groping women?
A recent io9 article says the following about Isaac Asimov:
Meanwhile, author Isaac Asimov’s proclivity for groping women was so
widely known that in 1961, the chair of Chicon III wrote a letter
inviting him to give a lecture on “The Power of…
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Is one in five women the victim of rape/sexual assault?
A (NSFW) 2014 YouTube video from social justice fashion company, FCKH8, claims:
One out of every five women will be sexually assaulted or raped by a man.
Is there any truth to this claim, and what is the source?
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Is there rampant sexual assault of women in Australia?
SBS's article claims that:
19.1% of women had experienced sexual violence since the age of 15
SBS is generally a credible source and data looks like it has been compiled from the government data but I find it incredible that this data is of a…
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Are paedophiles treated differently by other prisoners?
When I skim through the news and I occasionally meet articles that say about Paedophile convictions I see people raging above and mentioning the treatment that will receive from the other prisoners such as this, this and this.
Is this true to an…
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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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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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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
enable…
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Did a study found that 21.4 percent of women working as escorts in Chicago, US had been raped 10 times or more?
http://www.alternet.org/story/16406/sex_workers_and_civil_rights says:
Meanwhile similar results -- rampant violence, harassment, substance
abuse, health and housing problems -- were documented in a Chicago
study released in 2001 by the Center…
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Did Confucius say 'If rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it'?
I can variously find references to this, e.g. on Tex Antoine's Wikipedia page, this article on Salon. However, I've not been able to verify this directly, with all the sources seemingly second-hand. None of them say "in this ancient Chinese book,…
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