Survivors Of Sexual Assault Do NOT Need Your Sympathy Or Shaming, All They Need Is Support!
Trigger Warning: Contains details of sexual assault and rape that may be triggering for survivors
From rapes to unsolicited touch to sexual exploitation and harassment and even statutory rape, do any of these sound unfamiliar or unheard of occurrences in our country?
‘Rape’ has become a social problem. Despite awareness, the frequency of sexual victimization is relatively unchanged.
In a vast majority of cases, the perpetrators of sexual assaults are men while the survivors are women. And most of the media’s mention from details of assaults, to protests and action against the perpetrators, is about the incident. And to my surprise, we hardly ever find out the survivor’s emotional state. Doesn’t the assault affect her mental being? And does she finally get to lead a ‘normal’ life? If yes, how does she do that?
Click here to read more-
https://www.womensweb.in/2020/06/survivors-sexual-assault-not-sympathy-shaming-jun20wk1mad/
‘Rape’ has become a social problem. Despite awareness, the frequency of sexual victimization is relatively unchanged.
In a vast majority of cases, the perpetrators of sexual assaults are men while the survivors are women. And most of the media’s mention from details of assaults, to protests and action against the perpetrators, is about the incident. And to my surprise, we hardly ever find out the survivor’s emotional state. Doesn’t the assault affect her mental being? And does she finally get to lead a ‘normal’ life? If yes, how does she do that?
Click here to read more-
https://www.womensweb.in/2020/06/survivors-sexual-assault-not-sympathy-shaming-jun20wk1mad/
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