Is rape a common occurence?

Question

Do you personally know someone who has been raped?

Please don't give me statistics as I can look that up myself.

And only if you know them personally.

Answer 1

I get raped everytime my husband gets horny.

Answer 2

Of course it is....It's something that has always been around and unfortunately probably always will be.
I was raped at 8 and again at 15. I won't get into specifics. Once I was able to stand up and tell someone what had happened to me I learned that 5 women very close to me (3 family, and 2 friends) had been raped as well. It happens all the time. Most likely more than "statistics" will ever tell us because most people are too scared to say anything. I was one of them and it haunts me everyday.

Answer 3

I was raped twice and my sister was once also. It's something that changes you forever. I was planning on staying a virgin until I was married, too. The second time I was raped I actually got pregnant and had a miscarriage pretty early. It's terrible. I wanted to kill all men for a long time. Every time a guy so much as looked at me I would get angry and scared that he was going to hurt me. I'm slowly getting better, but it's a loooong road.

Answer 4

Yes my big sister was raped when she was 15 by a 21 yr old...im sure she was drugged.

Her best friend was also raped at a different time when she was like 17. Really sad story because she has a little boy and she was walking home from work 2 the bus stop. then all of a sudden these guys grabbed her and forced sex and oral sex. they put a gun 2 her head and everything. threatened 2 kill her, luckily they didnt.

my good friend was raped by her stepfather twice the third time she fought it off.

so sadly it happens fairly often.

Answer 5

Yes, and I know them very well. I think that there should be stronger punishments for sex offenders, because being raped is so degrading and humiliating, and it's something you have to live with for the rest of your life, while the offender is back on the streets in 6 months. It makes me sick.

Answer 6

umm yes i knew someone that got raped
me adn her were pretty close friends and
she never talked about the subject
jsut told me what happened and how sacred she was but never even told her parents
but shes not pregent or have any sickness or head problems
she prerty much normal like you and i
jsut a little bit scared at guys now
and she doesnt trust them often as guys

Answer 7

If you can look up the statistics then why ask the question & why bring up a horrible thought to someone?

Answer 8

My little sister's female friends admitted that they've been raped (or close to that) by some boys. I've heard about this 3 times.

Answer 9

Hm... I have a friend that was molested long ago when she was 3...

But that's all I know of. Even if it happened to anyone else I know, I doubt they'd tell me out of the blue. You know, most people feel uncomfortable talking about that sort of thing.

Answer 10

Self gratification and need of control have always been there. The sadness when it occurs in developed countries whose very citizens are unwilling ambassadors to their way of life, is incomprehensible. Perhaps a much deserved popular jeering point at United States by Islamic and more conservative states.

Read on if you want gory details. In the services, we encountered villages on the African continent whose women and children were raped wholesale. Rape sometimes culminated in mutilation of female breast and genitals.

Blades and blunt knives were used to cut these parts off so that they could not perpetuate the tribal lines. The rational was so that mothers would no longer be able to breast feed children in a land of scarce food and water. A cruder method was to burn off the parts which resulted in death by fire.

Disturbingly, this was not uncommon in some areas. In hindsight, ending their lives is an act of kindness when compared to trying to live a mutilation where medicine is in short supply. Perceivably, most died from physical injuries but I suspect that the worst kind is to the heart.

Certain Islamic tribes believe in the purity of bloodlines. They establish their family by memorizing and reciting ancestral roots taught from mother to son. That way, each tribe would know that they are connected some hundredth generations down the line. This would signal each other to provide help to each other or allow aggression to each others tribe.

Rape was sufficient in ruining their system of family continuity and honour. Impure girls could no longer wed, be ostracized and luck would have it, find themselves the service as property of a kind husband.

Upon encountering this the first time around, all ways to rationalize acts of rape and violence came to no avail. It resulted in further bloodshed hunting down the nomadic warring tribes. Against mandate, our retribution for those unable to defend themselves. Revenge, righteousness and retribution are airy words compared to the deeds of that day.

So really, what is the excuse of peaceful nations not on the brink of warfare, not having to worry where the next meal comes from, if they will see the sun rise the next day, to perpetuate rape and violence ? Enlighten me.

Years on, on occasion when talking to ex-colleagues, we talked trash and fantasied throwing rapists into the armed forces as cannon fodder.

Rationalising that if they were so macho, to come resplendent in the glory of an enemy willing to kill for their next feed. Fight real men and rape real men. Show us what you are really made of. That would save the prison system much space and save tax payers money.

Amongst the constellation of dreams, faces are as gaping floating star dust screaming to infinity. Welcome to fragments of my world.

So yes, one could say personal knowledge of meaningless and wasteful attribution in the face of peace.

Answer 11

Out of all the women that I know, more of them than not have had an experience of this nature.