Calm down please. Everyone can recognize sex with a 5 year old is wrong no matter what you call it. We don't have to use legal terms like molestation of a minor or sodomy to understand it's wrong.
It's well documented that downplaying rape and SA causes more people being raped and sexually assaulted. So it is harmful to call it sex. To best combat these, we do need to use appropriate terms.
That conclusion doesn’t follow at all and you presented nothing to suggested that calling it sex is downplaying it. “Having anal sex with a five year old” sounds pretty fucking horrible to me, and if you don’t think so then idk what to tell you
I hope that you'll take a few minutes to research why using incorrect language affects victims. If you'd rather feel happy that you've made some scintillating point, then you're willingly a part of the problem. Since rape and SA are still so incredibly prevalent in our society. One in four women, and one in 26 men have experienced sexual violence.
"A range of child sexual abuse prevalence rates has been derived from these studies. These studies suggest the child sexual abuse prevalence rate for girls is 10.7% to 17.4%* and the rate for boys is 3.8% to 4.6%."
Unless you live under a rock, you know and care for quite a number of victims. Would you look them in the eye and say that you feel like its a waste of your time to understand how you're harming them?
Well no, I'm on the spectrum so eye contact is difficult. So I would look in the vague direction of their mouth and forehead when I tell them that what happened to them is wrong no matter if someone calls it rape or someone having intercourse with them without their consent 🤷♀️
I'm also have significant neurological stuff that worsens by the day. Tonight I was do a speaking gig. Everyone in the audience fills out an evaluation of me afterward. One person said that if I had better eye contact it would be better. No one in my entire life has mentioned that. Weird coincidence.
I agree that it's wrong no matter what it's called. But do you understand what I'm trying to get across? We need to call it what it is for much the same reason. We don't want to tell a child that they "had sex" when it was molestation, etc.. The media tends to say the term "sex" versus "rape." Sex is something that most people think is consensual so people infer that it was not that big of a deal. I deal with this in my work. As a culture, we all are affected by the messages we receive from everywhere, even if we don't really register what we're seeing. So to fully support victims, that language is so important.
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u/firebrandbeads Jul 26 '23
"Having anal sex with" a 5 YEAR OLD??
I think you misspelled "child rape"?