sexual violence

Examples of sexual violence in the following topics:

• Sexual Violence

  • Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
  • Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
  • The most commonly discussed form of sexual violence is rape.
  • Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health.
  • Sexual violence is severly under reported.

• Current Research

  • Those who claim violent video games lead to violence fail to realize that violence is context dependent and most players of video games are fully aware of this.
  • There has been a great deal of attention concerning sexual violence on college campuses in recent years.
  • The US Federal government has raised concerns about this issue and various reports have found that colleges and universities are not addressing sexual violence as they should.For instance, many universities fail to investigate allegations of sexual assaults, they fail to encourage victims to report sexual assaults, they fail to provide adequate sexual assault training, and there are inadequate resources for the survivors of sexual assault.
  • Further, official figures like the one below limit their reporting to "forcible sexual assault" despite mounting evidence that the vast majority of sexual assaults on college campuses do not fit this narrow definition, and typically involve more subtle forms of sexual violence and coercion.
  • In fact, in-depth analyses of sexual violence on college campuses generally reveals that sexual assault has become a normal aspect of college experience, culture, and structure for many American women, that on average 1 in 5 college women will be sexually victimized in some way during their college careers, and that common forms of college leisure activity, such as Greek, Party, and Drinking cultures and habits on campuses, often facilitate the normalization of college sexual assault.

• Sexual Harassment

  • Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying, teasing, or coercion of a sexual nature.
  • Sexual harassment does not have to be only of a sexual nature; indeed, sexual harassment includes unwelcome and offensive comments about a person's gender.
  • Even though sexual harassment is less violent than other forms of sexual violence such as rape, victims still suffer serious consequences.
  • Victimhood for individuals subjected to sexual harassment can take a different and equally complicated form as victimhood for individuals who suffer from attacks for physical violence.
  • Sexual violence that is expressed in terms of some sort of physical assault against a victim has become a condemnable act; victims of physical violence are more likely to find others who are sympathetic to their understandable distress.

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
  • According to feminist theory, misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women.
  • The United Nations recognizes domestic violence as a form of gender-based violence, which it describes as a human rights violation and a result of sexism.
  • Transgender people regularly face transphobic harassment and violence.
  • Transgender people are much more likely to experience harassment, bullying, and violence based on their gender identity; they also experience much higher rates of discrimination in housing, employment, healthcare, and education (National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2010).

• Family Violence

  • Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against his or her will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.
  • Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against their will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.
  • In this definition, domestic violence takes many forms, including physical aggression or assault, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, controlling or domineering behaviour, intimidation, stalking, passive/covert abuse, and economic deprivation.
  • Sexual abuse is any situation in which force or threat is used to obtain participation in unwanted sexual activity.
  • Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against his or her will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.

• Factors Associated with Divorce

  • Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
  • While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
  • Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than the lawful spouse.
  • More narrowly, infidelity most commonly refers to a breach of the expectation of sexual exclusivity that is expressed or implied in intimate relationships in many cultures.
  • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.

• Sexual Orientation

  • A person's sexual orientation is their emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex or gender.
  • A person's sexual orientation is their emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex or gender.
  • Sexual orientation can be defined in many ways.
  • Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual.
  • Gays, lesbians, and bisexual people regularly experience stigma, harassment, discrimination, and violence based on their sexual orientation.

• Violence in Schools

  • School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
  • In part, violence receives more attention because it draws media coverage.
  • A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
  • Often, victims are targeted based on their appearance, their gender, or their sexual orientation.
  • Recall the risk factors for school violence in the U:S. and the two types of bullying

• Spousal Abuse

  • The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
  • Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
  • Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
  • Likewise, it can be helpful to explore factors such as race, class, religion, sexuality, and philosophy.
  • Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.

• Sexual Orientation

  • The sexual orientation of your audience members should be taken into account when giving a speech.
  • "Gay" is generally used to describe a sexual orientation, while "MSM" describes a behavior.
  • The term is especially used in the context of human sexual attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward men and women.
  • It also holds that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation, and that sexual and marital relations are most (or only) fitting between a man and a woman.
  • However, there are some areas which are important to LGBT people, such as laws around the world that criminalize homosexual behavior, recognition of relationships, same-sex marriage, LGBT adoption, immigration issues, violence and hate crimes, and legal aspects of transsexualism.