rape
Sign in to savethumb|They do not want to (plate 9 of The Disasters of War) by [[Francisco Goya, 1863]] Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent (statutory rape). The wrongness of the rape is not merely or, on many occasions even primarily, the viole
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Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent, accomplished through physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against someone incapable of giving valid consent. It matters because it represents a serious violation of a person's bodily autonomy and consent, as illustrated in historical artistic depictions of wartime suffering.
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- Etymology
- Definitions
- General
- Scope
- Consent
- Motives
- Effects
- Emotional and psychological
- Physical
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Victim blaming, secondary victimization and other mistreatment
- Honor killings and forced marriages
- Treatment
- Non-genital injuries
- Physical assessment
- Diagnostic testing
- Forensic sampling
- After the examination
- Genital injuries
- Infections
- Emotional and psychiatric
- Prosecution
- Reporting
- False accusation
- Conviction
- Statistics
- Deterrence and prevention
- History
- Definitions and evolution of laws
- War rape
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|They do not want to (plate 9 of The Disasters of War) by [[Francisco Goya, 1863]] Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent (statutory rape). The wrongness of the rape is not merely or, on many occasions even primarily, the violence against the body of the victim but the violence against the very person of the victim. The term rape is sometimes casually used interchangeably with the term sexual assault.
The rate of reporting, prosecuting and convicting for rape varies between jurisdictions. Internationally, the incidence of rapes recorded by the police during 2008 ranged, per 100,000 people, from 0.2 in Azerbaijan to 92.9 in Botswana with 6.3 in Lithuania as the median. Worldwide, reported instances of sexual violence, including rape, are primarily committed by males against females. Rape by strangers is usually less common than rape by people the victim knows, and male-on-male prison rapes are common and may be the least reported forms of rape.