PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexual Assault, Sex And The Law, Anal Sex

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Peggy Kleinplatz

Document Summary

By definition a husband could never be prosecuted for raping his wife, because they were married. 1983: sex crime seized to exist now it is called sexual assault, the victim and the perpetrator could be a man, women or minor. 4 types of actions that constitute the crime of sexual assault: penis and vagina, oral sex, forced manual stimulation or penetration, anal sex. Prior to 1983 you needed evidence of semen full penetration, since then the crime is that somebody is trying to do this, not how far they got, no difference between attempted rape or repeated rape. We now view sexual assault the same way we view any other type of assault. Moving sexual assault into a category as a sex crime to any other crime is to de- stigmatize it and see it just as a crime. The degree of trauma suffered depends on prior sexual experience not true, fear of everyone is that of being killed.