Hailee Fitch

1st period

June 9, 2015

Socially Awkward

 As I'm writing this paper about 32.7 people may be raped.

  " Rape: the crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will."

   683,000 American women are forcibly raped each year. 56,916 per month; 1,871 per day; 78 per hour; and 1.3 per minute. 

  "Don't tell me how to dress, tell them not to rape."  This quote along with many others are carried around on posters around the world, yet no one listens. Girls are judged by what they wear, called sluts, whores, etc and because of this boys think it's okay to rape because their clothes "provoked" them.  Girls nowadays can't wear what they want or what they at one time felt combatable in because they have to be worried about being sexually attacked.

   Being sexually attacked can cause so many problems physically and mentally. Almost one-third (31%) of all rape victims developed PTSD sometime during their lifetime; and more than one in ten rape victims (11%) still has PTSD today.  PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Which means each day they relive the trauma of having part of their innocence torn away from them.  Rape victims will attempt to avoid thoughts, situations, or people that are reminders of the trauma. Their anxiety will increase so much most of them will be on medicine for it (not including the medicine for depression). Being constantly on guard for danger, and being easily startled is their natural reactions to everything.

  Men need to start understanding the word no.  Men need to understand that when women are raped they are never the same after this. The girls feel as if they are worthless. Most women who are raped usually go through serious social withdrawals, depression and most of the time substance abuse. The social part is because she doesn't want to be put in the same situation that got her raped in the first place. From the research I have done, it seems like many women feel "dirty" and like they did something wrong to deserve being raped. The rape makes them feel like if they can be used like that they aren't really worth anything. Drug abuse is fairly common since for most women it can be an escape from the feelings they have

  Now let's take a moment to pray for the 32.7 people that were possibly raped while I was writing this paper.