misconceptions about rape die hard: four in ten French the rapist’s liability is reduced if the victim shows enticing. Similarly, for a French on two: “a ‘no’ often means ‘yes’”, according to a survey released on Wednesday
Master sexual desire
Number of. french (61%), and more than french (65%) also consider a man more harm “to control his sexual desire for a woman,” according to the survey Ipsos to the association traumatic memory and victimology .
“This is the sexist myth of a naturally violent male sexuality and instinctual predatory” notes the association in this first photograph of “depictions of rape and sexual violence” .
the association also welcomes the valuable contribution of information campaigns, government plans and the “tremendous work” of associations in this area.
the “code of silence “
yet despite these efforts,” law of silence, denial, impunity, lack of recognition, protection and abandonment of victims of sexual violence still reign supreme, “complains the president of traumatic Memory ., the psychiatrist Muriel Salmona
Too often still, “the victim is the guilty”
Some stereotypes seem especially entrenched among young people. nearly a third ( 30.7%) of 18-24 year olds ensure that “women can take pleasure in being forced in a sexual relationship.”
Always more “hard”
An opinion which could be correlated to the trivialization of pornography on the Internet, more and more “hard” notes the association.
If the near unanimity of French-es (96%) qualify rightly rape forcing a person who refuses to have sex, 24% consider such a forced fellatio falls under sexual assault, not rape.
What contradicts the definition of the crime in the Penal Code: “any act of sexual penetration, whatever its nature, committed against another person by violence, coercion, threat or surprise , is rape “.
” She had it coming … “
Similarly, the notions of coercion and influence are poorly recognized. More than one in four French people (26%) believes that when the attacker threatened the victim and did not resist, it is not rape but sexual assault.
Flirting, adopt a seductive attitude, agree to go alone to an unknown, is also for over a quarter of French-es (27%) a pattern of disempowerment of the rapist, the mode ” she had it coming … “.
a significant proportion (17%) also believe that forcing his wife to have sex when she refuses is not rape.
for the myth of the “real rape” continues: outside, under threat of a weapon by a stranger, against an attractive young woman
<. p> Nothing is more false. In 90% of cases, victims know their attacker. 58% of rapes are perpetrated within the couple and, for minors, 53% within the family circle. More than half of respondents (55%) think wrongly that the public space is the most dangerous.
Between 10,000 and 50,000 rapes per year
The annual number of rapes is underestimated: 41% of French is the between 10,000 and 50,000
. in fact, the observed mean the last five years 98,000 reported rape or attempted rape, including 14,000 on men. Taking into account the minor, the first victims of sexual violence, “surely we arrive at a figure higher than 200,000,” according to the association.
The French estimate that 25% of victims complain. They are in fact only 10%.
Instrumentalisation rape
Finally, the respondents consider that some victims falsely accuse their abusers, in revenge (32%) or to attract attention (23%).
“This myth is persistent. they are the only crimes or offenses for which a priori suspect the person who declares the victim” s’ Ms moves Salmona.
The survey was conducted via the Internet from November 25 to 2 December 2015, with a sample of 1,001 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, by the quota method.
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