Lecture Notes- Chapter 18
Family Studies 332 with Brougham at Arizona State University - Tempe
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By: Rachel Nye
Textbook:
Understanding Human Sexuality
Created: 2009-05-07
Size: 55 flashcards
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Confronting a rapist
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Effective self-defense uses multiple strategies
Rape Prevention
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- Requires changes in attitudes
- Education can't reduce it
- Suggestions for avoiding date rape
Power Rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- desdire to control and dominate the person (over half of rapes)
partner rape
(4 answers)
(4 answers)
- may be more common than date rape
- Men who are less accepting of sexual stereotypes are less likelt to commit rape
- Often occurs with violence, battering, and physical intimidation
- long-term effects are similar to survivors of stranger rape
Survivors tend to experience
(4 answers)
(4 answers)
- A crisis that can last for weeks
- Physical and psychological effects
- Problems in and workplace and in relationships
- Disturbances in sexual funtioning
Treatment of rape survivors
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- crisis intervention and long-term adjustment
In the Workplace
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- Most severe inolves supervisor demanding sexual favors as a condition of employment of advancment
- Laws exist to provide protection, but its hard to prove sexual harassment
Incidence of Rape
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- 191,000 assaulted in 2004
- About every 7 mins a women was reported to beng raped
- A majority of rapes are not reported- crime stats underreport rape
The motives
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- Anger rape
- Power Rape
- Sadistic Rape
Distorted reality of pedophiles
(5 answers)
(5 answers)
- see children as sexual beings
- believe that sex does not harm children
- Think they can can have sex with whomever they want
- See others as dangerous and controlling
- Believe they cannot control their impulses
Sexual Abuse of Children
(8 answers)
(8 answers)
- Most abused children are girls
- Patterns of Abuse
- Most molesters are close to the children they abuse
- Genital fondling is the most common type
- avarage age: 6-12 for girls, 7-10 for boys
- Types of abusers
- Pedophilia
- Incest: Breaking Taboos
Acquaintance rape
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- makes up 2/3rd of rape
- Is much less likely to be reported- they may not view it as rape
Rape and Psychological Disorders
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- PTSD
- Women who blame themselves for the rape tend to suffer more severe depression and adjustment problems
Statutory Rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Sex with a person w is below the age of consent
Rape by Women
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- rare
- women may aid men in raping other women
crisis intervention and long-term adjustment
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- support and information to develope stratagies for coping
- Help mobilze social support
May have complex origins
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- some were sexually abused as children
- Often unstable, disagreebale, angry, impulsive, and mistrustful
How to resist it
(5 answers)
(5 answers)
- discourage behavior
- avoid being alone with them
- convey a professional attitude
- talk with them
- file a complaint
Patterns of Abuse
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- Ranges from kissing, fondeling to sexual intercourse
- It is a crime in every state
- 18% of males and 25% of girls are sexually abused
Self-identified sexually aggressive men are more likely to:
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- condone rape against women
- engage in sex to express social dominance
- Be sexually aroused by depictions of rape
Social Attitudes, Myths and Cultural Factors that Encourage Rape
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- Myths are rationalizations for violence
- Male socializing and gender typing
PTSD
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- a type of stress reaction tat is brought on by a traumatic event and characterized by
Treatment of Rapist and Child Molesters
(4 answers)
(4 answers)
- Goal is to help society eliminate problem behavior
- Group therapy is a coomon from of treatment
- Medical Treatments such as castration
- Innovative programs using a variety of techniques
Anger rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- vicious, unplanned rape triggered by feelings of intense anger and resentment towards women
Incest: Breaking Taboos
(6 answers)
(6 answers)
- Incent
- Perspectives on incest
- Types
- Effects of sexual Abuse on Children
- Prevention
- Treatment of Survivors
Family factors
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- Often occurs within context of family disruption
- sexual relations between spouses are troubled
- incest is often repeated from generation to generation
Male rape
(4 answers)
(4 answers)
- one in ten rape survivors is a man
- most men who rape other men are hetersexual- may not have sexual motives
- Most occur in prison settings
- Survivors may suffer traumatic effects
Effective self-defense uses multiple strategies
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- may be impossible to think through option clearly when attacked
- advised that women practice responses
Rape
(15 answers)
(15 answers)
- Sexual intercourse that takes place as a result of force or threat of force
- Forcible Rape
- Statutory Rape
- Sexual Assualt
- Incidence of Rape
- Types of rapes
- Social Attitudes, Myths and Cultural Factors that Encourage Rape
- Psychological Characteristic of rapists
- The motives
- Adjustments of rape survivors
- Rape and Psychological Disorders
- If you are raped
- Treatment of rape survivors
- Rape Prevention
- Confronting a rapist
Types of abusers
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- majority are adult males, some are adolescents
- Male abusers were likely to have been abused themselves
- female abusers may be more common then thought
18% of males and 25% of girls are sexually abused
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- children rarely report the abuse
Sexual Assualt
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Any sexual activity that involves force or threat of force
Psychological Characteristic of rapists
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- There is no single type of rapist
- Antisocial personalities
- Self-identified sexually aggressive men are more likely to:
Cooperation theory
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- emphasizes the importance of cooperation ties between family groups to the survival of the society
Brother-sister
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- most common type
Incent
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- marriage or sexual relations that are closely related
Pedophilia
(5 answers)
(5 answers)
- persistant or reccurent sexual attraction to children
- almost all are males
- abuse patterns vary and there is no consistent personality profile
- May have complex origins
- Distorted reality of pedophiles
Prevention
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- Help children understand what it is and how they can protect themselves
- Teach adults signs of sexual abuse
Forcible Rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Sexual intercourse obtained with the unwilling with use of force
Gang rape
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- exercise of power and expression of anger against women
- usually more vicious
Date rape- 10% to 20% of women report it
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- man believes consent to dates includes consent to sex
Sexual harassment
(5 answers)
(5 answers)
- deliberate or repeated unsolicited verbal comments, gestures or physical contact of a sexual nature considere to be unwelcome by the recipient
- Victems can experience phycial illness, anxiety, irritabilitm low self-esteem ,and anger
- In the Workplace
- On campus
- How to resist it
deliberate or repeated unsolicited verbal comments, gestures or physical contact of a sexual nature considere to be unwelcome by the recipient
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- verbal abuse
- remarks about person's clothing
- unwelcome touching, pattingm or pinching
Treatment of Survivors
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- Adults- psychotherapy to improve self-esteem and ability to develop realtionships
- Children- multifauceted treatment approach
Types
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- father-daughter
- Brother-sister
- Family factors
a type of stress reaction tat is brought on by a traumatic event and characterized by
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- flashback of the experiences
- a sense of emotional numbing
- heightening body arousal
On campus
(3 answers)
(3 answers)
- 25% to 30% college student repoet at least one incident
- males twice as likely to commit
- negative attitudes toward school and lower grades can result
Types of rapes
(7 answers)
(7 answers)
- Stranger rape
- Acquaintance rape
- Date rape- 10% to 20% of women report it
- Gang rape
- Male rape
- partner rape
- Rape by Women
Innovative programs using a variety of techniques
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- empathy training
- antiandrogen drugs
Suggestions for avoiding date rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Communicate sexual limits
Adjustments of rape survivors
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- Survivors tend to experience
If you are raped
(5 answers)
(5 answers)
- don't change anything about your body
- report to the police
- ask a friend to take you to the hospital
- question health professionals
- call a rape hotline for advice
Sadistic Rape
(1 answer)
(1 answer)
- highly ritualized, savage rape
Effects of sexual Abuse on Children
(4 answers)
(4 answers)
- great psycholgical hram ad physical consequences
- abused children often act out
- Sexual development may be adversely affected
- may lead to psychological problems in adulthood
Perspectives on incest
(2 answers)
(2 answers)
- to prevent inbreeding
- Cooperation theory
About this deck
By: Rachel Nye
Textbook: Understanding Human Sexuality
Created: 2009-05-07
Size: 55 flashcards
Views: 18
Textbook:
Understanding Human SexualityCreated: 2009-05-07
Size: 55 flashcards
Views: 18
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