When people think of rape, they only think of the perpetrator as someone who is a stranger jumping out of a shadowy place and sexually attacking someone.
But it’s not only strangers who rape. In fact, about half of all people who are raped are on familiar terms with the person who attacked them. Girls and women are most often raped, but guys also can be raped.
Even if the two people know each other well, and even if they were intimate or had sex before, no one has the right to force a sexual act on another person against his or her will. Although it involves forced sex, rape is not about sex or passion. Rape has nothing to do with love. Rape is an act of cruelty and violence. You may hear some people say that those who have been raped were somehow “asking for it” because of the way they were dressed, or the way they acted. That’s wrong: The person who is raped is not to blame. Rape is always the fault of the rapist. And that’s also the case when two people are dating, or even in an intimate relationship. One person never owes the other person sex because they had to pay for a date or drinks. If sex is forced against someone’s will, that’s rape… Read morehttp://www.sevafrica.com/modules/safety/article.php?news_id=51
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