Rape: After the Trauma

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This paper contains a series of real life experiences of rape victims. The author describes their trauma and recounts how these mostly acquaintance-rape victims try to overcome their rape ordeal and recover psychologically as well as physically. The paper provides some statistics on rape cases as well as incest and child abuse cases in the USA.

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"The people who commit these heinous acts are usually close to the victim, a parent, cousin, uncle, friend of the family, or neighbor. The parents of the child, if they are not the ones molesting the child, feel safe about leaving the child with the molester, and the child feels as though they have no power to protect themselves. Rape is not about sex. It is about power and control - the power to destroy and the control over the body and mind of another person. Yet, those who can overcome being raped are immensely powerful themselves."

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