Types of rape
[4] This report indicates that young women are at considerable risk of becoming a victim of date rape while in college.
In addition, there have been reported incidents of colleges questioning accounts of alleged victims, further complicating documentation and policing of student assaults, despite such preventive legislation as the Clery Act.
One study showed that offenders and victims in gang rape incidents were younger with a higher possibility of being unemployed.
[10] Historically, research has shown that often women do not believe that non-consensual sexual acts within a marriage constitutes as rape.
When committed by a parent or other close relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, it is also incest and can result in serious and long-term psychological trauma.
Sexual activity that violates age-of-consent law, but is neither violent nor physically coerced, is sometimes described as "statutory rape", a legally-recognized category in the United States.
It consists of the rape of a female, usually by a group of several males, as revenge for acts committed by members of her family, such as her father or brothers.
The rape is meant to humiliate and bring shame upon the father or brothers, as punishment for their prior behavior towards the perpetrators.
It also covers the situation where girls and women are forced into prostitution or sexual slavery by an occupying power.
[citation needed] During war, rape is often used as a means of psychological warfare in order to humiliate the enemy and undermine their morale.
Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits wartime rape and enforced prostitution.
In one case, a man pretended to be an official for a government who had power to cause negative impacts on a woman to pressure her into sexual activities.
[29][30][31] The term was first coined in South Africa after well-known cases of corrective rape, such as that of sports star Eudy Simelane, became public.
[36] Custodial rape has been reported in India, Jamaica, Pakistan,[37] Bangladesh,[citation needed] Malaysia,[38] Sri Lanka,[39] Iran,[40] Cambodia,[40] Nigeria,[40] Kenya,[40] Zambia[41] and the United States.
Indian law says this type of rape takes advantage of the rapist's position of authority and is therefore subject to extra penalty.
[44] Victims of custodial rape are frequently minorities, people who are poor, or low-status for example because of their caste.
These rapists tend to show no anger except in response to their victim's resistance, and use little unnecessary force.
As mentioned above, when differing acts of rape are defined and typified, whether by popular convention, research of the subject, or otherwise, the results are often neither exclusive nor exhaustive in scope.
