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This paper explores the broad implications of rape and its affect on society as a whole. It looks at how violence against women is flagrant in video games, where women appear as huge-breasted cartoons posed in impossibly suggestive postures, and how our media sensationalizes sex crimes, rapes, murders, and the like, with stylized headlines and flashy commentary. It shows how, as a society, we are traumatized because there are no clear definitions of what rape is, who the victim is, and what the moral boundaries of sexual behavior are.

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"How does rape affect us? "Rape is a trauma just like a major disaster such as a tornado or bad car accident" (Koss and Harvey, 173 ). If rape inflicts trauma on society, then why does it continue? "At present, as we enter the third millennium and women have made great social strides and obtained legal rights equal to those of men, they continue nevertheless to be portrayed by media advertising and pornographic literature as objects of desire and lust" (Palermo and Farkas, 40). Our morality is changing. In 1939 the movie "Gone With The Wind" the producers took a terrible chance and allowed its lead actor to utter the word damn. In 2003 it is common to hear the word damn on primetime television or read that its utterance as attributed to national leaders."

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