Sexual assault and rape in the United States of America is reaching new epidemic levels and nothing is being done to stop it. Rape kits sit untested and collecting dust all over the United States and it is estimated that the numbers have reached hundreds of thousands. In places like New York City for example, the backlog of untested rape kits by 2003 had reached 17,000. In order to reduce this epidemic, the country must implement harsher punishments and prioritize educational classes earlier in age in order to emphasize the importance of consent and responsibility.
A 15-year-old girl in Oklahoma was assaulted in the parking lot outside of a restaurant on a Saturday night in 2014. She went to the police and was asked what she was wearing, …show more content…
The idea that a man is raped by another man or a woman is treated as nothing more than a joke within society because of the concept of toxic masculinity and the idea that only women can be raped. Coupled with that is also the idea that a woman cannot commit acts of rape simply because in most states rape is specified as a forcible insertion of a sexual organ. These facts are prevalent because they speak to how the country as a whole treats its citizens based on gender and how modern society believes that one gender is stronger or weaker in nature in comparison to the …show more content…
Countries like Iceland have some of the lowest rape statistics with only .141 out of every 1000 people reporting rape, compared to Americas 15-20% of women reporting rape, and these statistics makes us wonder; what are countries like Iceland doing to prevent this heinous crime? Iceland begins their sexual education classes, listed as life sciences, at the age of six or around the age of a first grader in the United States. These classes consist of what to do when the children want to express that they like someone, asking consent for hugs, and emphasizing that attraction towards the same gender is just as okay as attraction towards the opposite gender. Iceland has taken to teaching their children from the age of six that consent is needed for anything, including a hug, and that it is wrong to do anything that the other person does not want. Even with this small rape statistic of .141 out of every 1000 people Iceland still sees this as a problem and wants to reduce the number still, as they
A 15-year-old girl in Oklahoma was assaulted in the parking lot outside of a restaurant on a Saturday night in 2014. She went to the police and was asked what she was wearing, …show more content…
The idea that a man is raped by another man or a woman is treated as nothing more than a joke within society because of the concept of toxic masculinity and the idea that only women can be raped. Coupled with that is also the idea that a woman cannot commit acts of rape simply because in most states rape is specified as a forcible insertion of a sexual organ. These facts are prevalent because they speak to how the country as a whole treats its citizens based on gender and how modern society believes that one gender is stronger or weaker in nature in comparison to the …show more content…
Countries like Iceland have some of the lowest rape statistics with only .141 out of every 1000 people reporting rape, compared to Americas 15-20% of women reporting rape, and these statistics makes us wonder; what are countries like Iceland doing to prevent this heinous crime? Iceland begins their sexual education classes, listed as life sciences, at the age of six or around the age of a first grader in the United States. These classes consist of what to do when the children want to express that they like someone, asking consent for hugs, and emphasizing that attraction towards the same gender is just as okay as attraction towards the opposite gender. Iceland has taken to teaching their children from the age of six that consent is needed for anything, including a hug, and that it is wrong to do anything that the other person does not want. Even with this small rape statistic of .141 out of every 1000 people Iceland still sees this as a problem and wants to reduce the number still, as they