Rape is a sexual crime that violates the rights of all individuals who endure it, however women make up the majority of the reported rape assaults in the United States. ... Unfortunately, the elimination of this horrible sexual violation and the impact it has on women is nearly impossible. The physical and psychological effects of rape are devastating to women who endure it, and the recovery process is a long and difficult one. ... The victim may also have too much or too little energy and an over sensitivity to any type of noise. ...

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Eleven women manually stimulated themselves to orgasm on three separate occasions. ... So what is the purpose of orgasm in women? ... I feel that a they should have studied more than only 30 women. Another experiment I thought was of interest was the topic of multiple orgasms in women. ... The first position holds that orgasm in females is of little or no adaptive significance and indeed does not always (or even often) occur during copulation. ...

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Ever since sexual harassment received attention, there is often very little understanding and confusion among employers and employees of what constitutes sexual harassment in the work setting. ... In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men, or there is harassment t hat takes place between the same sexes, there is very little research done on these issues. Most women give several examples, like staring. Women describe this as "undressing you with their eyes-. The women aren't referring to admiring looks, but to what they c...

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It is estimated that nearly 50% of sexually active men and women will contract HPV at some point in their lives. ... Many studies, in both the US and the UK, have found that young women did not engage in riskier sexual behavior post-vaccination when compared to unvaccinated women. ... HPV VACCINATION ACCESS GLOBALLY Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. ... In the developing countries, 530,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year and 275,000 die from it. ... Through many studies and scientific research, this evidence was revealed to have little ...

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Until only recently in our nation's history, women in the United States were subject to male violence and had little to no recourse or any means of achieving justice. ... Alcohol affects men's perception of women's sexual intent. ... Pornographic films, especially those containing violence, can contribute to callous sexual behavior and violence towards women. This can be due to the manner in which women are portrayed in these films; often either as promiscuous or submissive. Women are portrayed as nothing more than sex objects. ...

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A survey conducted by the ABS in 1996 collected information on women's safety from a random sample of 6,300 women across Australia aged 18 and over. ... The Women's Safety Survey has helped develop national estimates on the nature and extent of sexual violence experienced by women in both the previous 12-month period and also from the age of 15 (ABS 1996b). ... Both the Women's Safety Survey and the questions on sexual assault from the Crime and Safety Surveys were limited to women over 18 years of age, leaving out children, adolescents and men. ... It is likely, therefore,...

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A Women's Safety Survey taken in 1996 claimed that sexual assault was one of the least reported crimes in this country. The survey revealed that only 15% of women who had experienced sexual assault over the previous 12 months had reported it to police. ... A phone-in survey of women taken in Victoria (ABS, 1993) asked several questions of the respondents in relation to the reasons why they remained silent. Some women spoke of their fear that police would not believe them, that the perpetrator would extract retribution from them if they did lay charges; family and friends advised them not ...

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Female juvenile offenders account for less that 5 percent of reported sexual offenses, and very little information is known on this population, due to limited sample sizes, and the overall underestimating, that female juveniles are capable of sexual offenses (Kalogerakis, 1992; Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.). ... Little research has been conducted on the role of substance abuse, therefore, its overall effects to the juvenile sexual offending population remains unclear (Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.) ... Furthermore, public registries do little to inform the public a...

• Word Count: 8141
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Although many people place little importance on television's implantation of the images in their brains, research has shown that humans slowly turn into whatever images they carry in their minds. ... And, while women have been hysterically portrayed in television commercials as sex objects by manufacturers who sought to sell to sell products ranging from automobiles to cologne, a recent article noted that corporate sponsors have now increased their portrayal of sex objects to include men (Ingrassia, 1994, p. 66). Now women are shown on television acting in a sexist manner, which had pre...

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So the idea is that men have sex for the love of sex and women have sex because they love the man. Girls receive a mixed message when it comes to sex, they are taught to use there sexuality as a negotiable commodity, and at the same time taught to devalue other women who sell there sexuality, or prostitutes. ... Management of an adolescent's sexually active lifestyle is so complicated, (e.g., the decision to have sex, finding a time and place, fear of being caught, fear of pregnancy, no one to confide in, etc.), that there is little or no time spent on becoming good responsive sexual part...

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Others would take the view that - in the majority of instances, at least "the temporary collapse of ego boundaries that constitutes falling in love, is a genetically determined instinctual component of mating behavior', and so that falling in love has little to do with purposively nurturing one's spiritual development." ... Since societies create very different gender roles for men and women, differences in interpretation of the same data are bound to occur (Wade, et al., 1996). ...

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Television and Sexual Messages Fifteen year-old Laurie was rushed to the emergency room with acute pain in her lower abdomen. Doctors initially suspected appendicitis but during surgery they discovered something worse. Laurie suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease that was caused by either chlam...

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For example, a conviction for incest offending against a family member does not necessarily mean that other sexual offences have not been committed against children outside the family, or against adult women. ...

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