PRELIMS Flashcards
(83 cards)
RA 9262
An act defining Violence Against Women and Their Children
Violence has been classified as
Physical Violence
Psychological Violence
Economic Violence
Sexual Violence
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.”
Sexual Assault
- 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
- any type of forced or coerced sexual contact or behavior that happens without consent. Sexual assaults include rape and attempted rape, child molestation, and sexual harassment or threats
SEXUAL ASSAULT
● 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
CONSENT
Age of Consent in the Philippines
16 years of age and above by virtue of RA 11648
rape or sexual assault perpetrated by someone unknown to the survivor.
stranger rape
perpetrator rapidly and brutally assaults the victim with no prior contact. Blitz assaults usually occur at night in a public place.
Blitz Sexual Assault
perpetrator works to gain trust and confidence before assaulting.
Contact Sexual Assault
Sexual abuse by a relative, sexual contact/abuse between family members.
Incest -
- survivor and the perpetrator are known to each other, whether by passing acquaintance or someone the survivor knows intimately.
Acquaintance Rape
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 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 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
normal sex
● 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 deviancy
● 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.
- CULTURAL STANDARD
● Sexual acts are based on the commandments of the faith as to what act is wrong or right, son or not;
religious normalcy
Sex is something that is a duty of one spouse for the other, not to be enjoyed but endured; -
Sexual acts belong to those who are legally and spiritually married and done only under specific condition.
. Traditional Sexual Philosophy
● Legitimizes behavior in the same fashion as the other standards, but at a personal level;
● This involves how a person personally rationalizes the act.
● A person must feel that what he/she is doing is not only normal, but “really not that bad”
subjective standard
Ranges from simple to complex or it may be escalating
fantasy