d to the feelings of victims who experienced other violent crimes such as beatings and attempted murder. The perpetrators of these crimes act out of hostility not out of sexual desire. For example, on March 1, 1989, a retarded seventeen- year old girl was gang raped by a group of popular student athletes. Four boys rammed a broomstick, baseball bat, and another stick into into the girl’s vagina, while nine others pulled up folding chairs to witness the action as if they were watching a movie. The motive in this case, as in so many other rape cases was not sex, but violence. In male prisons, where the majority of men are heterosexual, the occurrence of rape has become widespread and uncontrollable. Imprisoned men can get raped thousands of times. The rapists are usually the men convicted of violent crimes. They rape weaker inmates who become labeled “punks” or sex-slaves. In this way, the bigger inmates receive a status as a tough person. These rapes are violent, frequent, and performed by those with a history of violence. In the cases of inmates murdering other inmates, the victims are raped first. Rape where the status is a theme also, often occurs on college campuses. Since there is very little supervision and plenty of available intoxicating substances, crime of rape is easy to commit and prevalent. A common fraternity initiation requirement is to have sex with a girl at school. This sometimes leads to rape. More importantly, however, sometimes the initiation requirement is not to have sex with a girl at school but to specifically rape a girl at school. For centuries, rape was seen as a natural byproduct of armed conflict. During wars, rape is an extremely efficient tool. When the women of a community re destroyed, that community is destroyed. Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, rape is defined as a war crime. This further illustrates the violent nature behind it. When a person says “no” to sex, and t...
