May the all perpetrators and rape advocates be brought to book.
Rape has speedily become prevalent, people of all ages are being raped on a daily basis from some few months old babies to elderly ones (mostly the female gender).
Let us consider rape amidst the youths.
When it is rape and when it is not? At least we don’t expect an elderly man or woman or little children to falsely accuse anyone of rape. In that case, there is little or no doubt that if a person is alleged of raping little children or elderly ones then it’s most likely true.
I will create some few scenarios and these cases are different from the obvious force and coldblooded rape perpetrated by friends, partners, strangers and people of higher status like bosses, helpers etc.
Overtime, it has become difficult to ascertain when a sexual intercourse is rape or consensual or should I say consented rape, this has made retribution difficult whereby a real rapist is vindicated and their victims doesn’t get justice and has to live with the burden all their lives and/or a falsely accused person is punished for what he or she didn’t commit (mostly he).
Let’s create some few scenarios.
Scenario 1.
A lady visited her male friend without having any ulterior motive, just to hang out and that’s all, the guy begins to touch her inappropriately, she said to him she doesn’t like it, he didn’t stop but he wasn’t hard or forceful, he persisted calmly and softly, she on the other hand was resisting but doing it mildly, he continued touching softly, she kept resisting mildly. In the end they had sexual intercourse.
This scenario right there is the case of many and it can happen in the other way round where it is the guy who doesn’t want to engage in the sexual intercourse.
Scenario 2.
Two opposite sex attracted to each other are alone in a room, they had started foreplay and had gone a long way, their minds were ready, bodies were ready for the main thing and just about time for the deal, a party pulled out and decided he/she won’t continue ( in most cases, it’s the lady that pulls out) , the party who is already on cloud 9 didn’t stop and continued and so they had it.
This is another common case; how easy is it to back out? Is it okay to lead on and back out whenever the spirit leads?
We have heard many stories whereby the involved parties have different opinion about their sexual intercourse, one party sees it as rape and the other party sees it a consensual.
Scenario 3.
This is the case of many male, it could be from friends, exes, bosses (like the case of Potiphar’s wife in the bible) family members etc. When a party falsely accuses another party of rape for different reasons like revenge, anger, blackmail e.t.c
That is another common case of rape experienced mostly by the male gender, which has made it extremely difficult to know for sure if truly an accused person is guilty of rape.
Here are questions for you;
1. Is scenario 1 and 2 a case of rape?
2. How easy is it to identify a false rape accusation?
Now let’s take a poll, comment in this👇 format and tell us your gender.
Sample answer;
Male
Scenario 1 is rape
Scenario 2 is not rape
Scenario 3 is easy to identify
