Prelims Flashcards
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ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
R.A 9262
“any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act,
unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to
traffic women’s sexuality, using coercion, threats of
harm or physical force, by any person, regardless of the
relationship with the victim, in any setting, including but
not limited to home, school, prison, the streets and at
work.
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SEXUAL ASSAULT
refers to any sexual, physical, verbal, or visual act that
forces a person to engage in sexual contact against their will or without their affirmative consent.
Sexual assault
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CONSENT
● A clear “yes” to sexual activity.
● One knows and understand what’s going on
● One knows what he/she wanted to do
● One is able to say what he/she wanted to do
● One is sober
There is no legal consent if a person is:
● Threatened, forced, coerced, or manipulated into agreeing to
engage in a sexual activity
● Not physically able to engage in a sexual activity (when one is
drunk, high, drugged, passed out, or asleep)
● Not mentally able to give consent (due to illness or disability)
● Younger than 12 years old (in the Philippines)
Is rape or sexual assault perpetrated by someone
unknown to the survivor.
Stranger Rape
The perpetrator rapidly and brutally assaults the victim with no prior contact.
Blitz Sexual Assault:
usually occur at night in a public place.
Blitz assaults
The perpetrator works to gain trust and confidence before assaulting.
Contact Sexual Assault
Sexual abuse by a relative, sexual contact/abuse between family members.
Incest
The survivor and the perpetrator are known to each other, whether by passing acquaintance or someone the survivor knows intimately.
Acquaintance Rape
Is a form of child abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity, period.
Child Sexual Abuse
Unlawful intercourse with a minor
Statutory Rape
Women who have been physically abused by their partner have often experienced sexual abuse
Spousal/Partner Rape
– the state of deviating away from the standard / norm
Deviancy
– deviation from the “normal” sexual acts
Sexual Deviancy
This concept refers to behaviors that involve individuals seeking erotic gratification through means that are considered odd, different, or unacceptable to either most or influential persons in one’s community.
Sexual Deviancy
What is “Normal” Sex?
What is normal to one person may be quite offensive or even bizarre to another. Even as one ages from adolescence to older adulthood, private sexual standards may change
SEXUAL STANDARDS DEFINING NORMAL SEX
STATISTICAL STANDARD
● Defining criterion are the numbers
● If more than 50% of the population practice a certain sexual
behavior, it is then considered normal;
● Validates normalcy for a person / group of persons who practice that
particular sexual act;
● Can be dangerous; it can define lawbreaking as normal.
SEXUAL STANDARDS DEFINING NORMAL SEX
CULTURAL STANDARD
● Based on the set normal rules and regulations with changing
sanctions that accommodate transgression of its rule, which often
take the form of laws, statutes, and ordinances;
● The concept of what behavior is appropriate and what behavior is
deviant is relative; it depends on the norms of the society at a
specific time.
● Sexual acts are based on the commandments of the faith as to what act is wrong or right, son or not;
RELIGIOUS NORMALCY