Questions tagged [sexual-abuse]
The forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
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Does a study claim that there is a lack of organized rape by the Israeli Defence Forces for political motives?
A December 2007 article in Israel National News claims:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to ...
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Did an Egyptian dean of Islamic Studies say "we have the right to enslave Israeli women whom we captured in the war and enjoy them sexually"?
According to The Intellectual Extremism of Al-Azhar by Maher Jabra:
The statements of the former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies for Women at Al-Azhar University, Dr. Souad Saleh, supported ...
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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 ...
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?
The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2022 (archive.is link):
Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender
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Lady Nicholson said that the case had arisen as a direct ...
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Did Andrew Tate claim his job was to seduce women and get them on a webcam?
Andrew Tate is a social media personality who was recently charged with rape and human trafficking offences.
There are screenshots available of Andrew Tate's website cobratate.com, on which it says:
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Can female virgins be legally executed in Iran?
This anonymous source claims that female virgins cannot be executed in Iran. From 'I wed Iranian girls before execution':
In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity ...
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What are the actual current total count and per capita count of interracial rape? [duplicate]
There are many pictures floating over the internet which says Black on White rape is so much more than White on Black rape. How true is this? Is this true even now?
Source: https://bjs.ojp.gov/...
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Did UK police agree to drop sex-offense charges in exchange for an apology?
In the United Kingdom, Community Resolution Orders give the police the powers to deal with minor offences in which the offender pleads guilty and agrees to reparations, without using the court systems ...
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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 ...
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Were the vast majority of people on the National Sex Offender Registry children when they committed their crime?
In "Planet America extra podcast (PEP)" 25 Sep (At 1 hour 27 minutes) Dr David Smith made the following claim:
"The national sex offender registry is a disaster in all kinds of respects,...
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Is availability of video pornography a main reason of sexual crimes in developing and under-developing countries? [closed]
I think it is easiest to google search for a porn video than any other thing. What I notice is that whenever a sexual criminal is caught and when Police search for his belongings, almost every time ...
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Do church congregations attract sex offenders?
On page 34 of their 2008 report Licensed to Hug: How Child Protection Policies Are Poisoning the Relationship Between the Generations and Damaging the Voluntary Sector, authors Frank Furedi & ...
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Did Confucius say 'If rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it'? [closed]
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. ...
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In Alabama, if a person is found not guilty of rape, is their accuser assumed to be lying?
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so the Alabama abortion criminalization bill has an extra tacked onto the end of it wherein, if a woman reports being raped and they find the person she accused not guilty, SHE ...
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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 ...
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Do UK background checks successfully ‘prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups’? [closed]
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 ...
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Did Alfred Kinsey sexually abuse children for his studies?
The following is an interesting question posted in Psychology.SE which was closed as off-topic. It was not migrated here so I thought I would ask it.
An article at https://web.archive.org/web/...
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Does New York City have a room for teachers suspected of sexually assaulting pupils? [closed]
This question over on Politcs.SE created a lot of argument over the pros and cons of unions in public services.
One particular comment dated January 2017 by K Dog caught my eye:
NYC is the worst. ...
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Did a victim of Weinstein testify in a letter that the acts performed were consensual?
The German newspaper FAZ reports:
Die Ankläger erreichte eine schriftliche Stellungnahme der früheren Nachwuchsschauspielerin Lucia Evans. Darin beschrieb Evans den Oralsex mit Weinstein in dessen ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Do 90% of rape cases in the UK go unreported?
According to this image which I've seen on facebook a number of times, 2 in 1000 rapists are falsely accused and 90% go are unreported.
I already know that the number of falsely accused rapists shown ...
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About another answer; it seems to me not one, but two of the sources are irrelevant [closed]
I am skeptical about a reference in an old accepted answer on whether there is a connection between the way one dresses and the chance of being raped.
Since the post this concerns is protected, could ...
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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. "...
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Did GOP senators say these things about Kavanaugh allegations?
I saw the following screenshot on Twitter:
The picture shows an MSNBC screen with the header "GOP SENATORS ON KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS" with pictures and the following quotes:
"I'll listen to the lady, ...
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Did Pakistan military and allies rape 200-400 thousand women during the 1971 war?
A 2016 article from the Indian Express, When raped women and war babies paid the price of a new nation, refers to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and states:
An official estimate of 200,000 to 400,...
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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
From this tweet, by a tweeter who claims to be located in Sweden:
No Joke: Sweden’s board of health and welfare and the migration authority just released this pamphlet called “information to the ...
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Do only 0.6% of rapes lead to incarceration in the US?
According to this website: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system,
out of every 1000 rapes, 994 perpetrators will walk free
Similar percentages are presented for other types of ...
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Are Germans buying anti-rape "safety shorts"?
From The Express: Safe shorts to STOP women joggers suffering SEX ATTACKS in Germany are sold out, January 1 2017:
AN ENTREPRENEUR from Germany has created trousers with the aim of protecting women ...
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Did the city of Berlin set up safe zones for women for New Year’s Eve 2017/2018?
The BBC has reported that the city of Berlin was setting up “safe zones” for women for New Year’s Eve. It was very heavily reported on by RT, Sputnik and other media. New Year's Eve party in Berlin to ...
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Sexual assault epidemic on US campuses or up-playing of same situation as elsewhere? [duplicate]
I'm not from the US nor do I live there - so I definitely have no idea what life on US campuses is like.
In recent years I've heard occasional news stories about supposed prevalence of sexual assault ...
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Are these rape statistics correct regarding rapes of black women by white men between 2003 and 2008 in USA?
I recently saw this picture:
The image links to this DOJ document.
A similar image gives the following sources from the USA Bureau of Justice for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 (table 42 in ...
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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 ...
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Did a German judge acquit a man of rape because he is Turkish?
Tyler O'Neil, assistant editor at PJ Media, titles in an article from 2017-04-21:
German Judge Says Turkish Man's Forced Violent Sex Is 'Culturally' Not Rape
The article goes into lot of details, ...
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Are these figures about sexual harassment by Trump, O'Reilly, Ailes and Obama correct?
@LegitMillennial claims in a tweet that went viral:
I found a graphic I think Fox News might've missed.
The image reads:
Number of times each have been accused of sexual assault/harassment
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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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Is this a photo of an actual ad posted by sex traffickers?
This image has been cited as an example of a 'sex traffiking ad' in facebook & twitter posts here:
Was this picture actually used by sex traffickers to find victims?
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Was a 15-year-old teen sentenced to 15 years because he took 5 seconds to stop intercourse with an 18-year-old?
This story has been floating around in image form. Is it as ludicrous as it is presented, or are there nuanced facts being left out? Did it even happen?
The 18-year-old woman (“J.L.”) had sex in her ...
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Did the alleged victim of Julian Assange's Swedish sex crime say that police made it up?
In this interview with John Pilger, Julian Assange says
...here we have case where... the woman herself says the police made it up.
... But what is the rhetoric? The rhetoric is... never mentioned ...
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Were ISIS soldiers ordered to rape women 'to make them Muslim'?
CNN:
Headline: ISIS soldiers told to rape women 'to make them Muslim'
The 22-year-old says the militant who picked her out raped her -- but
not before trying to justify himself.
"He showed me a ...
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Did Ivana Trump claim under oath that she had been raped by Donald Trump?
The New Yorker article "Documenting Trump's Abuse of Women" (24 October 2016) recounts Trump biographer Harry Hurt III's claim that Ivana Trump said in a sworn deposition she had been raped ...
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Did Turkish people commit 70–80% of the rapes in Cologne around the year 1996?
In an interview by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 2016-12-29, the journalist/feminist Alice Schwarzer said (in German):
Dass vor 20 Jahren 70 bis 80 Prozent aller Vergewaltigungen in Köln von ...
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Did Petra Klamm-Rothberger, from German Green Party, say that Maria Ladenburger had to be killed as raped women are killed in Afghanistan?
I'm giving the url for the google translation of two sites that offer the claim, to check for additional details in addition, if necessary, for checking if the claim is true or not.
This is one ...
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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
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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 ...
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Have 5% of Australian Catholic priests been charged with child sexual abuse offences?
From The Monthly: Letting Catholic priests into Australia was a mistake
There are around 3000 Catholic priests in Australia, plus a few
hundred retirees. Of these, an astonishing one in 20 has ...
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Does Dubai impose prison time or even the death penalty for victims of rape? [closed]
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 ...
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Are one in five children in Europe victims of sexual violence?
I was recently asked to sign a petition for a campaign against sexual violence against children.
The petition claimed that one in five children are victims of some form of sexual violence in Europe. ...
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Were there 19,000 rapes in the US military in 2011?
Donald Trump claimed in a tweet posted by him in 2012 that
Rape is a huge problem in the U.S. military. Over 19,000 rapes last year.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/215817662998126593
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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 ...
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