LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Female Promiscuity, Sexual Assault, Gang Rape
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Prior to the 1980s we had legal definitions that we now know to be sexual assaults were called rape. 4) lack of consent for it to be rape. More of the males perception of rape so. Old definition of rape: 4 requirements for rape to be meant 1) had to be laws were based on myths, ideologies or social norms that formed these laws. Belief doing the investigation they would put the emphasis on whether the man felt he had catch more behaviors surrounding rape that the old laws didn"t. Concept of rape before: crime wasn"t about women"s integrity. No penetration then no rape (cid:523)groping, or anal didn"t count(cid:524). (cid:884)(cid:524) had to be a women to be a victim of rape men weren"t able to be victims. These that rape is rare and didn"t occur a lot. The image of the rapist was a perverted, didn"t have to good girls (cid:523)girls who dress modestly and aren"t promiscuous(cid:524).
