Sex Crimes

Rape - Violent Partners - Pedophiles - Forced Marriages - Staring



Sexual Misconduct is any misconduct of a sexual nature that is of lesser offense than felony sexual assault such as rape and molestation, particularly where the situation is normally non-sexual and therefore unusual for sexual behavior, or where there is some aspect of personal power or authority that makes sexual behavior inappropriate. A common theme, and the reason for the term misconduct, is that these violations occur during work or in a situation of a power imbalance. It is a legal concept to frame offenses which are non-criminal but nevertheless violating of another person's personal boundary in the area of sexuality and intimate personal relationships. Sexual misconduct is often perpetrated against an individual without their consent or where the power dynamics of the relationship are being challenged in an effort to redefine the nature or form of consent necessary in a given circumstance. The alleged misconduct can be of various degrees, such as exposure of genitals, assault, aggressive come-ons, pleading, or even inattentiveness to nonverbal cues of discomfort. The "definition of sexual misconduct is far from clear" and it is a "lay term, sometimes used in institutional policies or by professional bodies", to deal with cases marked by power imbalance, coercion, and predatory behavior." Toxic Workplace.

Impropriety is an improper behavior that is not suitable and not right or appropriate. Inconsiderate actions that do not follow written laws, rules or morals or social convention. Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.

Indecent is unacceptable behavior and standards of what is right or proper in polite society. Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance. Offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters. An act of lacking justification or authorization for a secretive or illicit sexual relationship.

Equal Rights Amendment - Crimes - Morals - Power Abuse - Abuse

The main reason why improving education is so extremely important is to stop people from turning into criminals and also to help people to understand that abusing people is damaging to everything. Human Rights need to be fully understood.

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Sexual harassment is unwelcomed behavior of a sexual nature. For example, a man whistles at a woman when she walks by. Or a woman looks a man up and down when he walks towards her.

Anti-Harassment Codes and Policies - No one is above the Law - Toxic Workplace

Harassment is the act of tormenting someone using continued persistent attacks and criticism. Abuse - Threats.

Torment is the act of harassing someone persistently in cruel or annoying way causing intense feelings of suffering or acute mental, emotional or physical pain, or extreme distress of body or mind. Subject someone to torture or psychological abuse.

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Things Considered to Sexual Harassment includes a wide range of behaviors, words or actions that are deliberate and/or repeated that may appear relatively innocent, but are not and could be blatantly illegal such as forced fondling, attempted or actual rape and sexual assault. Other improper behaviors may include joking or telling sexual jokes or stories, innuendoes, flirting and asking someone out on a date. Direct or indirect threats or bribes for unwanted sexual activity. Rape. Sexual innuendos and comments. Objectification. Intrusive sexually explicit questions. Abuse. Sexually suggestive sounds or gestures such as sucking noises, winks, or pelvic thrusts. Repeatedly asking a person out for dates, or to have sex. Touching, patting, punching, stroking, squeezing, tickling, or brushing against a person. Fondling. A neck/shoulder massage. Rating a person's sexuality. Ogling or leering, staring at a woman's breast or a man's derriere or buttocks. Spreading rumors about a person's sexuality. Name-calling, such as bitch, whore, or slut. Sexual Ridicule. Bullying. Frequent jokes about sex or males/females. Letters, notes, telephone calls, or material of a sexual nature. Pervasive displays of pictures, calendars, cartoons, or other materials with sexually explicit or graphic content. Stalking a person. Attempted or actual sexual assault. Actual or attempted rape or sexual assault. Unwanted pressure for sexual favors. Unwanted deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering, or pinching. Unwanted sexual looks or gestures. Unwanted letters, telephone calls, or materials of a sexual nature. Unwanted pressure for dates. Unwanted sexual teasing, jokes, remarks, or questions. Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey. Whistling at someone. Cat calls. Sexual comments. Turning work discussions to sexual topics. Sexual innuendos or stories. Asking about sexual fantasies, preferences, or history. Personal questions about social or sexual life. Sexual comments about a person's clothing, anatomy, or looks. Kissing sounds, howling, and smacking lips. Telling lies or spreading rumors about a person's personal sex life. Neck massage. Touching an employee's clothing, hair, or body. Giving personal gifts. Hanging around a person. Hugging, kissing, patting, or stroking. Touching or rubbing oneself sexually around another person. Standing close or brushing up against a person. Looking a person up and down (elevator eyes). Staring at someone. Sexually suggestive signals. Facial expressions, winking, throwing kisses, or licking lips. Making sexual gestures with hands or through body movements. Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey. Making sexual comments about a person's body. Making sexual comments or innuendos. Turning work discussions to sexual topics. Asking about sexual fantasies, preferences, or history. Asking personal questions about social or sexual life. Making kissing sounds, howling, and smacking lips. Making sexual comments about a person's clothing, anatomy, or looks. Repeatedly asking out a person who is not interested. Telling lies or spreading rumors about a person's personal sex life.

Non -Verbal Harassment may include looking a person up and down (Elevator eyes). Staring at someone. Blocking a person's path. Following the person. Giving personal gifts. Displaying sexually. Suggestive visuals. Making sexual gestures with hands or through body movements. Making facial expressions such as winking, throwing kisses, or licking lips.

Physical Harassment is giving a massage around the neck or shoulders touching the person's clothing, hair, or body Hugging, kissing, patting, or stroking Touching or rubbing oneself sexually around another person Standing close or brushing up against another person.

Subtle Sexual Harassment is a behavior but not a legal term. It is unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature that if allowed to continue could create a QUID PRO QUO and/or a Hostile Work Environment for the recipient. For example, unwelcome sexual comments, jokes, innuendoes.

Quid Pro Quo Harassment is when employment and/or employment decisions for an employee are based on that employees' acceptance or rejection of unwelcome sexual behavior. For example, a supervisor fires an employee because that employee will not go out with him or her. Bribery.

Hostile Work Environment is a work environment created by unwelcome sexual behavior or behavior directed at an employee because of that employee's sex that is offensive, hostile and/or intimidating and that adversely affects that employee's ability to do his or her job. For example, pervasive unwelcome sexual comments or jokes that continue even though the recipient has indicated that those behaviors are unwelcome.

Sexism is an attitude of a person of one sex that he or she is superior to a person of the other sex. For example, a man thinks that women are too emotional. Or a woman thinks that men are chauvinists. Sexist.

A memory scientist's advice on Reporting Harassment and Discrimination: Julia Shaw (video and text) - Talk to Spot.

Sex Discrimination is ignorant behavior that occurs when employment decisions are based on an employees sex or when an employee is treated differently because of his or her sex. For example, a female supervisor always asks the male employees, in a coed workplace, to move the boxes of computer paper. Or, a male supervisor always asks the female employees, in a coed workplace to plan office parties. Prejudice.

Sexual Discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the basis of their sexual orientation or sexual behavior. It usually refers to a predisposition towards heterosexual people, which is biased against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and asexual people, among others.

Pink Tax is a phenomenon often attributed as a form of gender-based price discrimination, with the name stemming from the observation that many of the affected products are pink. Products marketed specifically toward women are generally more expensive than those marketed for men, despite either gender's choice to purchase either product. The NYC Department of Consumer Affairs conducted a study that concludes that women's products are typically more expensive than men's for often reasonable cause. There are many causes of this discrepancy, including the tampon tax, product differentiation, and the belief that women are less price elastic than men. Products marketed specifically toward women cost on average 7% more than products marketed toward men, according to a New York City Department of Consumer Affairs study.

Sextortion is a form of sexual exploitation that employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or information is the means of coercion. Examples of such abuses of power include: government officials who request sexual favors to obtain licenses or permits, teachers who trade good grades for sex with students, and employers who make providing sexual favors a condition of obtaining a job. extortion also refers to a form of blackmail in which sexual information or images are used to extort sexual favors from the victim. Social media and text messages are often the source of the sexual material and the threatened means of sharing it with others. An example of this type of sextortion is where people are extorted with a nude image of themselves they shared on the Internet through sexting. They are later coerced into performing sexual acts with the person doing the extorting or are coerced into posing or performing sexually on camera, thus producing hardcore pornography.

Revenge Porn revealing or sexually explicit images or videos of a person posted on the internet, typically by a former sexual partner, without the consent of the subject and in order to cause them distress or embarrassment. Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of individuals without their consent. The sexually explicit images or video may be made by a partner in an intimate relationship with the knowledge and consent of the subject at the time, or it may be made without their knowledge. Not infrequently the victim (male or female) has been subjected to sexual violence, often facilitated by narcotics (rape drugs) which also cause a reduced sense of pain, involvement in the dissolved sexual act, dissociative effects and amnesia. The possession of the material may be used by the perpetrators to blackmail the subjects into performing other sex acts, to coerce them into continuing the relationship or to punish them for ending the relationship (in case of relationship), to silence them, to destroy their reputation, and/or for financial gain. Revenge.

"Sexual Harassment Training will never be effective if education never improves or if the media never improves."

Times Up Now is a Legal Defense Fund that provides subsidized legal support to those who have experienced sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in the workplace.

Misogyny is the hatred of women or the contempt and prejudice against women or girls.

Behavior as physical contact and advances, sexually colored remarks, showing pornography and sexual demands, whether by words or actions. Such conduct can be humiliating and may constitute a health and safety problem; it is discriminatory when the woman has reasonable ground to believe that her objection would disadvantage unwanted, improper or offensive; unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature made either explicitly or implicitly.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. This nursery rhyme will not prepare you for the ignorance and the evil that is poisoning the minds of morons around the world. Taunting.

To be called a slut or a stud is the same thing, both are definitions of risky behavior. But some how slut became demoralizing while stud became glorifying, which is total ignorance and a direct attack on women. Demeaning or just teasing someone with words are tactics perpetrated by ignorant people who want to demoralize someone or make light of risky behavior, which only brings attention to their own failures and their own lack of knowledge. Yes you should explore and experience life, but beware of the risks and be prepared for the worse. If your not prepared, you are blindly playing with disaster that could ultimately lead to excessive and undue suffering. Have fun on all your adventures, but understand there are no guarantees. The odds of certainty.

White-Collar Sex Offenders Keep Getting VIP Treatment From Prosecutors who have inherent bias toward more lenient treatment of “white-collar” defendants charged with sex crimes. Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals in Federal Courts: A Socio-Legal Exploration of Disparity.

Gender harassment and institutional betrayal in high school take toll on mental health. High school students who endure gender harassment in schools that don't respond well enter college and adulthood with potential mental health challenges, according to a study. Researchers found that 97 percent of women and 96 percent of men from a pool of 535 undergraduate college students had endured at least one incident during high school.

They told me to change my clothes. I changed the law instead. | Gina Martin | TEDxWarwick Oct 27, 2020 (video) - At the British Summer Time Festival in 2017, a man placed a phone between Gina Martin’s legs, took photos just inches away from her crotch and proceeded to share these images with his friends. Angered by a lack of response from the authorities, Gina took to social media to document her experience creating viral posts and an online petition receiving 50,000 signatures with cross-party support. As a political novice from a working-class background, it took years of juggling politics and activism, before Gina was finally successful in adding upskirting to the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Upskirt is the practice of taking non-consensual photographs under a person's skirt or kilt, capturing an image of the crotch area, underwear, and sometimes genitalia. An upskirt is a photograph, video, or illustration which incorporates an image made by upskirting, although the term may also be used to refer to the area inside a skirt, usually from below and while being worn. The practice is regarded as a form of sexual fetishism or voyeurism and is similar in nature to downblouse photography. The ethical and legal issue relating to upskirt and downblouse photography is one of a reasonable expectation of privacy, even in a public place.

Rape - Sexual Assault

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability or is below the legal age of consent. The term rape is sometimes used interchangeably with the term sexual assault. Kidnaped.

Statutory Rape is sexual activity in which one of the individuals is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior. Although it usually refers to adults engaging in sex with minors under the age of consent.

Sexual Assault is a sexual act in which a person is coerced or physically forced to engage against their will, or non-consensual sexual touching of a person. Sexual assault is a form of sexual violence, and it includes rape (such as forced vaginal, anal or oral penetration or drug facilitated sexual assault), groping, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the person in a sexual manner. Affirmed Consent.

Serial Rapist is a rapist who rapes more than one person over a period of time. Some serial rapists target children. "Sexual predator", "Repeat Rape" and "Multiple Offending" can also be used to describe the activities of those who commit a number of consecutive rapes, but remain unprosecuted when self-reported in research. Others will commit their assaults in prisons. In some instances, a group of serial rapists will work together. These rapists can have a pattern of behavior that is sometimes used to predict their activities and aid in their arrest and conviction. Serial rapists also differ from one time offenders because "serial rapists more often involved kidnapping, verbally and physically threatening the victims, and using or threatening the use of weapons." Drug War.

Rape Kit are items used by medical personnel for gathering and preserving physical evidence following an allegation of sexual assault. The evidence collected from the victim can aid the criminal rape investigation and the prosecution of a suspected assailant. DNA evidence can have tremendous utility for sexual assault investigations and prosecution by identifying offenders, revealing serial offenders through DNA matches across cases, and exonerating those who have been wrongly accused. Rape Detection Kit.

Hundreds of Thousands of Untested Rape Kits in the US. Hundreds of thousands of Untested Rape Kits in police and crime lab storage facilities throughout the country, there is no comprehensive, national data on the nature and scope of the rape kit backlog. Few state governments and no federal agencies track this data. Across cities and counties, there are vast differences in the way law enforcement officials track and report rape kit data, if at all, making it exceedingly difficult to compare data and to have a national picture of the backlog.

Sexual Assault Kit Backlog

Violent Criminal Apprehension Program ViCAP Linked only 33 crimes in 12 years. FBI with an $8.2 billion yearly budget, ViCAP receives around $800,000 a year to keep the system going. In 2013, police submitted 240 cases involving sexual assault to the system. The FBI recorded 79,770 forcible rapes that year. Local agencies entered information on 232 homicides. The FBI recorded 14,196 murders. ViCAP receiving information on only about 0.5 percent of such violent crimes.

Medicapt App helps clinicians effectively collect, document, and preserve forensic medical evidence of sexual violence to support the local prosecution of these crimes.

Hundreds of Thousands of Untested Rape Kits in police and crime lab storage facilities throughout the country.

Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act - Rise Now

1 In 16 Women Reports First Sexual Experience As Rape. More than 3 million women experienced rape as their first sexual encounter, according to a new study, which surveyed women ages 18 to 44 in the U.S. Over half (56%) of them said they were verbally pressured into having sex, and 16% said that their partner threatened to end the relationship if they didn't have sex. These forms of coercion were not mutually exclusive.

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Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation, like torture. Practitioners of sadomasochism may seek sexual gratification from their acts. While the terms sadist and masochist refer respectively to one who enjoys giving or receiving pain, practitioners of sadomasochism may switch between activity and passivity. Sadomasochism is not diagnosable unless it causes significant distress or impairment to the individual or harm to others, or when they are caught or called out.

No Rape Day, if you think that you will rape someone today, then please stay go somewhere safe, enjoy the day off to reflect.

Dating Abuse is defined as the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship. It is also when one partner tries to maintain power and control over the other through abuse/violence. This abuse/violence can take a number of forms: sexual assault, sexual harassment, threats, physical violence, verbal, mental, or emotional abuse, social sabotage, and stalking. It can include psychological abuse, emotional blackmail, sexual abuse, physical abuse and psychological manipulation.

Domestic Violence (crimes) - Intimate Partners Commit the Most Crimes.

Torment is to inflict extreme mental distress or intense mental pain on someone. Terrorism - Bullying - Abuse.

Aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual. It may occur either in retaliation or without provocation. In humans, frustration due to blocked goals can cause aggression. Human aggression can be classified into direct and indirect aggression, whilst the first is characterized by physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm to someone, the second one is characterized by a behavior intended to harm social relations of an individual or a group.

When Sex turns into a Criminal Act and Perversion.

Date Rape Drug is any drug that is an incapacitating agent which, when administered to another person, incapacitates the person and renders them vulnerable to a drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), including rape.

Alcohol and Sex deals with the effects of the consumption of alcohol on sexual behavior. The effects of alcohol are balanced between its suppressive effects on sexual physiology, which will decrease sexual activity, and its suppression of psychological inhibitions, which may increase the desire for sex. Alcohol is a depressant. After consumption, alcohol causes the body’s systems to slow down. Often, feelings of drunkenness are associated with elation and happiness but other feelings of anger or depression can arise. Balance, judgment, and coordination are also negatively affected. One of the most significant short term side effects of alcohol is reduced inhibition. Reduced inhibitions can lead to an increase in sexual behavior.

Sex and Drugs both legal and illegal, have been linked throughout human history, encompassing all aspects of sex: desire, performance, pleasure, conception, gestation, and disease.

Alcohol effects my Legs (image)

Bullying - Abuse

Social Stigma - Shame is feeling embarrassment, dishonor, disgrace, inadequacy, humiliation, or chagrin. Body Image.

Guilt occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard.

Consensual Sex - Let's not and say we did.

Violence Against Women Act is a 1994 United States federal law which provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave un-prosecuted. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.

Sexual Violence Prevention Report (PDF)

Things to Remember that can Lessen your Risk of being Victimized. Walk with purpose. Keep your eyes up. Know where the exits are. Watch for suspicious people. Avoid places that are known to be unsafe. Don’t go places alone. Run errands during the day. Don’t linger in isolated places. Don’t be distracted. Stay in well-lit areas. Always be aware of your surroundings. Carry a Stun Gun. Keep your keys in your hand, ready to go. Use a Medical Alert Device. Talk to some one on your cellphone if you suspect an attack. Use Tracking Devices.

Violence Against Women are violent acts the victims of which are primarily or exclusively women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female, and can take many forms. VAW has a very long history, though the incidents and intensity of such violence has varied over time and even today varies between societies. Such violence is often seen as a mechanism for the subjugation of women, whether in society in general or in an interpersonal relationship. Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator, or because of his violent nature, especially against women. The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, "violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women" and "violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men." Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared in a 2006 report posted on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) website: Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her.

Female Genital Mutilation is a criminal act of cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The ignorant practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities from countries in which FGM is common. UNICEF estimated in 2016 that 200 million women living today in 30 countries—27 African countries, Indonesia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen—have undergone the procedures.

U.N.’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (female genital cutting - female circumcision). Globally, it is estimated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM.

Can A Bath Of Milk And Honey Replace Female Genital Mutilation?

Step Up Program - Bystander Intervention Programs

Military Sexual Assault Victims say the System is Broken.

Women's Education - Morals - Women's Body

Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse (video)
How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control: Ashley Judd (video and text)

Statute of Limitations is specifying the length of time within which a claimant or prosecutor must file a case. However, once a charge is filed, cases do not need to be resolved within the period specified in the statute of limitations. May be extended for a variety of reasons (such as the minority of the victim)

Why do some men feel like that need to oppress or Dominate Women? Why do people feel that it's necessary to control other people?

Dominance and Submission is only supposed to be just a fantasy for some people, not a reality. Seducing should only happen when both people have agreed to this behavior, and are both aware of the intentions, and the foreplay.

Women Are Killed Every Day By Their Partners

Half Of All Female Homicide Victims Are Killed By Intimate Partners. More than 55 percent of the deaths were related to partner violence, and the vast majority of those were carried out by a male partner. More than 98 percent of those homicidal partners were men. (In general, men are more likely to be involved in a homicide than women. Seventy-seven percent of homicide victims are men.

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Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Here Are 59 Ideas On How To Stop The Violence against Women

1. “Treat choking as the serious crime it is. Choking/strangling the victim is one of the top indicators of future homicide.” — Kim Gandy, CEO of the National Network To End Domestic Violence.

2. “Create a national domestic violence registry, like the sex offender registry. Because the recidivism rate is so high.” — Kimberly Brusk, domestic violence survivor.

3. “A lethality assessment protocol, used to determine how much danger a domestic violence victim is in, should be utilized across the U.S. Results should inform sentencing and treatment guidelines. Police and court officials should undergo training to understand lethality factors.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

4. “Relocation services and assistance for victims with high lethality risk, with a change of identity similar to current witness protection programs.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

5. “We need to do what the U.K. did and make psychological abuse a crime. Just because one was never hit, doesn’t mean you’re not a victim too.” — Jennifer Tetefsky, domestic violence survivor.

6. “A system of detaining and monitoring the abuser rather than the victim having to drop everything and go to a shelter would afford greater safety. The victim still needs to go to work, still needs her kids to be in school, and those are both huge exposures to lethal violence. Remove the threat, not the threatened.” — Lisette Johnson, domestic violence survivor.

7. “An electronic monitoring system where victims are alerted when their abusers who are on parole or probation are in their vicinity.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

8. “Stricter penalties for repeat offenders.” — Barb Weems-Mourglia, domestic violence advocate.

9. “Law enforcement should arrest abusers when they violate restraining orders.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence survivor.

10. “Better communication across counties and states with law enforcement, prisons, jails, court systems and treatment providers regarding information about abusers. Perhaps a central monitoring system?” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

11. “Harsher consequences for stalking, harassment, ongoing emotional and verbal abuse.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence survivor.

12. “Make non-fatal strangulation a felony in Ohio.” — Amy Weber, lost a family member to domestic violence homicide.

13. “Judges: When a victim is asking for a permanent restraining order, grant it!” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence and gun violence survivor.

14. “Do not force victims to be in the same courtroom as abusers. Allow for testimony to be taken separately and safely.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence and gun violence survivor.

15. Annual domestic violence training for police officers and court officials incorporating victim impact stories to put a face on the issue that they often become numb to.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor Gun safety reforms.

16. “Recognize that one of the most dangerous times for victims is when they are trying to leave the abusive relationship, or have already left. Make it easy to get a temporary restraining order, and remove firearms (and prevent gun purchases) during that danger period.” — Kim Gandy, CEO of the National Network To End Domestic Violence.

17. Congress should close the loopholes in the federal gun prohibitions to ensure that stalkers and [abusive] dating partners are barred from gun ownership, just like other dangerous abusers. — Everytown for Gun Safety.

18. Every state in the nation should prohibit possession of firearms by anyone convicted of abusing an intimate partner or family member. And every state should prohibit gun possession by anyone subject to a protective order prohibiting them from harassing, threatening or stalking an intimate partner or family member. — Everytown for Gun Safety.

19. “Require police departments to investigate if domestic abusers are prohibited from owning guns, or [have the police] be subject to serious fines and imprisonment if their lack of proper investigation results in a shooting.” — Jennifer Tetefsky, domestic violence survivor.

20. States should provide all records of prohibited abusers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. — Center for American Progress.

21. Congress should require comprehensive background checks and ensure that prohibited domestic abusers cannot easily evade background checks by buying guns from unlicensed sellers. — Everytown for Gun Safety.

22. There are 46 percent fewer intimate partner gun homicides of women in states that require background checks for private handgun sales than in states that do not. State lawmakers should require private, unlicensed sellers to conduct background checks on gun sales, just as licensed gun dealers do. — Everytown for Gun Safety.

23. States should pass laws requiring that domestic abusers turn in their guns to law enforcement or licensed gun dealers when they become prohibited. — Everytown for Gun Safety Financial assistance.

24. Research shows that domestic violence victims do indeed lack adequate access to affordable legal services. What about subsidized lawyers for domestic violence survivors? — The Institute for Policy Integrity.

25. “Comprehensive financial and legal services available immediately to victims. Job placement. Housing. Money to get out of the home.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence survivor.

26. “We need to train domestic violence survivors on financial literacy so they can become economically independent.” — Ludy Green, domestic violence expert.

27. “Abusers mandated to pay into a pool that gives rental assistance to victims, so fewer become homeless because of domestic violence.” — Barb Weems-Mourglia, domestic violence advocate.

28. “Domestic violence is the third leading cause of homelessness among families nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Due to a critical lack of affordable housing, families in domestic violence shelters typically have no safe, affordable options and are unable to leave shelter. Moving victims and their children as quickly as possible into safe, affordable housing reduces the trauma of domestic violence, the disruption of children’s lives, and increased cost to the public sector to house a family in a shelter.” — Carol Corden, executive director of New Destiny Housing.

29. “My situation was one of abandoning rights to marital property if I left the house. I was shot while we were working out who would leave. In situations of abuse, partners should be protected from any forfeiture of marital property.” — Lisette Johnson, domestic violence survivor.

30. “Allow victims to be on stand-by [for court hearings] so they aren’t continuing to miss work every time court is postponed.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor Education and training.

31. “Education in elementary schools. Little boys need to know that daddy pushing mommy around is not normal, and availability to a counselor should be there if a child wants to talk about their home life to someone.” — Anonymous.

32. “Funding for domestic violence education at every high school in our nation. Teach our youth about red flags and not being a bystander. It truly makes a difference.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

33. “Attitudes need to change toward the victims of domestic violence. Many people still feel like the woman should ‘just leave.’ The problem is they don’t understand how dangerous it is to leave. The most volatile time is when the victim tries to separate.” — Lisa Riveglia Rasmussen, domestic violence survivor.

34. “All EMS personnel should be required to have training on intimate partner violence dynamics and community resources. There is a significant gap in services to victims without that mandate.” — Karen Oehme, the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State’s School of Social Work.

35. “More needs to be talked about in terms of signs of manipulation and power/control in the mass media. When there’s no blood it’s just not ‘sexy’ or dramatic enough to make the news.” — Jennifer Tetefsky, domestic violence survivor

36. “We need more education about financial abuse. My ex-husband verbally and psychologically abused me for years. He systematically broke down my psyche until I could barely decide between wheat or rye on a sandwich without talking to him about it. Then, for six months on an almost daily basis, he worked to convince me that I was a bad parent because I was working 20 hours a week, 15 minutes from home. Once I left the best job I ever had, he had me totally under his control.” — Anonymous domestic violence survivor.

37. “Become educated as a bystander on how to offer help in the right way (without judging) if you suspect/know someone in that situation.” — Lovern Gordon, domestic violence survivor.

38. The National Governors Association, in collaboration with the Federal Government and Tribal Governments should launch a public education campaign in every state, territory and reservation. — Futures Without Violence.

39. “Study funded to provide data of how often a woman lies about domestic violence versus it being legit. To shut up those who believe women lie about abuse.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence survivor Divorce and child custody.

40. “In my first domestic violence case as a young lawyer, a client was shot by her estranged husband when he arrived for visitation exchange. Courts must stop forcing victims to share custody, legal or physical, with an abuser (who will doubtless use the child to punish her for leaving, and maintain power and control over her), and must not require the victim to be alone with the abuser for visitation exchange.” — Kim Gandy, CEO of the National Network To End Domestic Violence.

41. “Immediate divorce granted for victims nationwide. It’s currently state by state, with most not immediate. I was made to wait until after his prison sentencing (14 months) to get my divorce trial.” — Kimberly Brusk, domestic violence survivor.

42. “Never require divorce mediation in cases of domestic violence.” — Nicole Beverly, domestic violence survivor.

43. “Separate CPS cases for abuser and victim.” — Kimberly Brusk, domestic violence survivor.

44. “Require intensive domestic violence training for guardian ad litems and child protective services.” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence survivor Support services and shelters.

45. “A place to leave pets — like an emergency foster care system — if shelters won’t take them. So many won’t leave because abusers will kill their pets.” — Jennifer Tetefsky, domestic violence survivor.

46. “Intensive mental health services for victims and children (covered by insurance or free).” — Kate Ranta, domestic violence. survivor.

47. “San Francisco was able to eliminate domestic violence homicides for 44 months. Domestic violence victims who access community-based services are less likely to be killed. We must ensure that there are funded community-based services that are accessible to all the various communities in an area, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, language, immigration status, sexual orientation and disability.

City agencies must also be willing to come together with community-based agencies to identify gaps and weaknesses, so that the response both from government and non-governmental agencies is continuously being analyzed and improved.” — Minouche Kandel, Esq., Women’s Policy Director, City & County of San Francisco.

48. “An interconnected system to research shelters and specific services.” — Jennifer Tetefsky, domestic violence survivor.

49. “Career training for survivors of domestic violence is a crucial part of their successful journey to self-sufficiency and freedom from abuse. Our staff regularly encounter cases where abusers exert financial controls to intimidate and isolate their victims, including limiting access to bank accounts and preventing them from pursuing education and career opportunities. Our Economic Empowerment Program, a replicable workforce training initiative, was created to address the needs of survivors living in the nexus of abuse, poverty and homelessness, and has helped hundreds of survivors learn marketable skills and obtain living wage jobs since it began in 2011.” — Judge Judy Harris Kluger, director of Sanctuary For Families.

50. “Don’t deny people access to shelters because of drug use or sex work.” — Hilary Hanson, HuffPost reporter.

51. “More money for domestic violence shelters. Each year, the National Network to End Domestic Violence does a one-day survey of domestic violence programs nationwide to calculate how many people are accessing help. On a single day in 2015, 71,828 victims were served across the country. Yet, 12,197 requests for help went unmet because of lack of funding.” — Kim Gandy, CEO of the National Network To End Domestic Violence.

52. Invest in treatment programs for children who have witnessed or experienced violence. — Futures Without Violence.

53. Invest in treatment programs for men and boys who use violence in relationships. — Futures Without Violence Workplace.

54. Paid sick days and paid family leave laws and policies are essential. It is also crucial for the leave to extend explicitly to survivors of violence. Women comprise two-thirds of minimum wage earners and are disproportionately subject to violence and stalking both in and outside the workplace. Most low-wage jobs, unlike many office or white-collar jobs, don’t come with paid leave, health insurance, or other benefits.

Missing work means not getting paid and the very real risk of getting fired. In the aftermath of a traumatizing assault or frightening stalking incident, a worker may need to go to the police, to court, or to the doctor. Employers can and should be first in line to provide support and protection to their workers — not punishments that further jeopardize their safety and economic security. — Futures Without Violence.

55. “More companies should offer paid domestic violence days if a victim has to attend court or is out because of an attack (this was a big one for me).” — Lovern Gordon, domestic violence survivor.

56. “Laws to protect domestic violence victims from losing their jobs.” — Melissa Saporito, domestic violence survivor.

57. Public agencies should receive a fine for decisions that put victims at increased risk. — Futures Without Violence.

58. Employers should develop and implement workplace policies/protocols that specifically address domestic and sexual violence and stalking. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than 70 percent of U.S. workplaces don’t have a formal program or policy that addresses workplace violence. Most employers don’t think about violence affecting their employees until an incident occurs at the workplace. Rather than reacting to specific incidents, workplaces should adopt a more comprehensive approach. They can do this by focusing on protections and policies that create a culture of prevention? — ?not reaction. — Futures Without Violence.

59. Educate and train company leaders and employees. Employers should ensure that employees, including those in supervisory roles, know how to identify an employee who has experienced violence, and what resources are available for assistance. — Futures Without Violence.

Domestic Violence (help)

At Least A Third Of All Women Murdered In The U.S. Are Killed By Male Partners. Up to 75% of abused women who are murdered are killed after they leave their partners. 3 women are killed every day in America by a current or former intimate partner. Each year 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner. Each year about 4,000 women die because of domestic violence.

Insane Crimes against Women: Female genital mutilation, acid throwing that results in disfigurement or death. Domestic murders include stoning, bride burning, honor killings, and dowry deaths. Domestic abuse, battering, or family violence. Mentally Disturbed.

3 Women Are Killed Every Day By Their Partners. Here Are 59 Ideas On How To Stop The Violence.

Protective Order - Restraining Order

In the U.S. across the year 2008, courts issued an estimated 1.7 million domestic-violence restraining orders. On any given day in 2008, an estimated 1.2 million domestic-violence restraining orders were active. According to the FBI, between 600,000 and 700,000 records of permanent orders are entered annually into the NCIC registry. National Crime Information Center (NCIC). Research suggests that restraining orders are between 40 and 80 percent effective in deterring future incidents of abuse in the year after obtaining the order.

Do Protection Orders Protect?

2010 should be another bumper year for temporary restraining orders, with 2 million to 3 million likely to be issued. Carrying a cost of roughly $2,000 apiece, this will ultimately cost taxpayers at least $4 billion

How Women Get Ready for First Dates (youtube)

Sexual Assault Expected (SAE)  What our Schools and Universities are hiding.

The Hunting Ground - Purple Pinkie

Another good reason why sex education needs to start before high school, and is completed before leaving high school. Men need to be taught not to rape women, and women need to be protected when reporting assaults. You want peoples rights to be protected, but you don't want someone to get away with committing a crime either. Remove the rapist from school, but do not deny them an education. And if the victim wants to transfer to another school, then that school should pay for the transfer.

Just 20 Percent Of Female Campus Sexual Assault Victims Go To Police? - PDF

106 Colleges Are Under Federal Investigation For Sexual Assault Cases.

Office for Civil Rights (wiki)

More Than 20 Percent of Female Undergrads at Top Schools Are Victims of Sexual Misconduct.

AAU Campus Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct

Pestered is to troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances. Annoy persistently.

Besieged is to harass, as with questions or requests. Beleaguered.

Accosted is to approach with an offer of sexual favors

AP Investigation on Sexual Assault by Fellow Students. 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students over a four-year period, from fall 2011 to spring 2015. That figure represents the most complete tally yet of sexual assault among the nation’s 50 million students in grades K-12. But it also does not fully capture the problem: Such attacks are greatly under-reported, some states don’t track them and those that do vary widely in how they classify and catalog sexual violence. About 5 percent of reported attacks involved 5- and 6-year-olds. Incidents jumped between ages 10 and 11 — typically the start of middle school — and continued rising until age 14, when they began dropping as students progressed through high school.

Forced Marriages - Arranged Marriage - Slavery

Arranged Marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by their families.

Thousands Of Young Women In U.S. are forced into marriage. Arranged Ignorance.

Memory Banda: A warrior's cry against child marriage (video)

Tahirih Justice Center legal help for immigrant women forced to marry.

Guidance for Forced Marriage. Information and practice guidelines for professionals protecting, advising and supporting victims.

Kidnapping - Forced Labor - Living Wage

Un-Chained at Last helping women leave or avoid arranged/forced marriages and rebuild their lives.

7.5 Million Child Marriages a Year Globally. This year alone, 13.5 million girls under the age of 18 – that’s 37,000 daily – will marry. And almost one third of them will be younger than 15. 750 million women and girls will have been married as children by 2030. Samburu Girls Foundation - Too Young to Wed - Marriage Info.

Girls Not Brides - Child Marriage Facts and Figures

More Power to Her: How Empowering Girls Can End Child Marriage

Vital Voices: Samar Minallah Khan 2015 (youtube)

Vital Voices - #15Girls - Women's Education

Sexual Slavery is slavery for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Sexual slavery may involve single-owner sexual slavery; ritual slavery, sometimes, associated with certain religious practices, such as ritual servitude slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes but where non-consensual sexual activity is common; or forced prostitution.

Slavery is forcing a person to do things against their own free will and sovereignty, usually under threat of violence, bondage, debt or other punishment, or by manipulating and exploiting a persons ignorance or lack of knowledge. So a person can be enslaved and not even know it, and end up doing things that are not even necessary or do things that only benefit a few people. slavery is a human rights violation because it robs a person of their freedoms and liberties. slavery is the result of criminal behavior that comes mostly from ignorant people who have wealth and power. But slavery comes in many forms. Slavery has been outlawed and is illegal in almost every country around the world. But laws do not guarantee compliance. The only way to guarantee compliance to to improve education and improve the ways the media is supposed to inform people.

29 Million Girls and Women are Victims of Modern Slavery in 2020

End Slavery Now mission is to end modern slavery. Walk Free undertakes research to build the world’s most comprehensive evidence-base of modern slavery – the Global Slavery Index.

Slavery in the 21st Century refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used.

Anti Slavery - Freedom United is the largest modern anti-slavery community in the world.

Bondage is the state of being under the control of another person who has force or influence and abstract power. Bondage is being Physically Restrained or Mentally Restrained, like a Prison or Indentured Servitude.

Mann Act is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 that makes it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.

Trafficking is to deal or trade in something illegal. Trafficker is someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money.

Human Trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

National Women's Law Center - Law Info

Banaz A Love Story. A film by Deeyah Khan ©Fuuse Films (youtube)

Millions of African girls are becoming wives every year. In Niger, about 75% of girls will become child brides before they turn 18. In Chad and the Central African Republic the figure is 68%.

Lady Gaga Oscars Performance of "Til It Happens To You" Lady Gaga 2016 Full Performance (youtube)

Even if it does happen to you, there is still no guarantee that you'll experience the exact same thing as someone else. Some people don't learn the same way as everyone else, or experience things the same way as everyone else.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Dr. Mary Pipher (wiki).

#IStandUp Against the Harm Caused By Objectification of Women in Advertising (youtube)
#WomenNotObjects (youtube)

7 beliefs that can silence women — and how to unlearn them - Deepa Narayan / TED Talks India: Nayi Baat (video and text).

Bullying - Body Image

"If you liberate the mind and spirit of those around you, especially women, you have at least doubled your talent pool."

Sex Offender - Pedophilia - Perversion - Sex Abuse

Sex Offender is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and legal jurisdiction. Most jurisdictions compile their laws into sections, such as traffic, assault, and sexual. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crimes of a sexual nature; however, some sex offenders have simply violated a law contained in a sexual category. Some of the crimes which usually result in a mandatory sex-offender classification are: a second prostitution conviction, sending or receiving obscene content in the form of SMS text messages (sexting), and relationship between young adults and teenagers resulting in corruption of a minor (if the age between them is greater than 1,060 days). If any sexual contact was made by the adult to the minor, then child molestation has occurred. Other serious offenses are sexual assault, statutory rape, bestiality, child sexual abuse, female genital mutilation, incest, rape, and sexual imposition. However, particularly sex offender registration laws in the United States, may also classify less serious offenses as sexual offenses requiring sex offender registration. In some states public urination, having sex on a beach, or unlawful imprisonment of a minor also constitute sexual offenses requiring registration. (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser).

Molestation is sexual assault or abuse of a person, especially a woman or child. The action of pestering or harassing someone in an aggressive or persistent manner.

Family Watchdog is a free service to help locate registered sex offenders in your area.

National Sex Offender Registry - National Sex Offender Registry (wiki)

Do you know someone on the Sex Offender Registry?

Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years old, and at least five years older than the prepubescent child, for the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia.

Sexual Predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" or abusive manner. Analogous to how a predator hunts down its prey, so the sexual predator is thought to "hunt" for his or her sex partners. People who commit sex crimes, such as rape or child sexual abuse, are commonly referred to as sexual predators, particularly in tabloid media or as a power phrase by politicians. Marketing.

Super-Predator is a person who preys on the most vulnerable people in society. A super predator can be a republican politician or a republican voter or a republican sympathizer, such as an ignorant democrat who votes for republican legislation or supports republican programs that are designed to attack the most vulnerable people in society, while at the same time, enrich themselves. A Lowlife.

Reasons why people do bad things. They are forced and threatened to do bad things. They are extremely desperate with few choices so they believe that their only option is to do something bad. They are mentally ill and suffer from a physical problem that effects their thinking. They are under-educated and ill-informed which causes them to believe that their behavior and actions are justified. They are just unaware of what they are doing because they lack the knowledge and information that is needed to understand their situation accurately. They are just a total scumbag who likes doing bad things to other people.

Child Grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, and sometimes the family, to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse. Child grooming is also regularly used to lure minors into various illicit businesses such as child trafficking, child prostitution, or the production of child pornography.

Child Sexual Abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child (whether by asking or pressuring, or by other means), indecent exposure (of the genitals, female nipples, etc.), child grooming, or using a child to produce child pornography. How do you know if you have been Molested? What are the physiological effects of Sexual Abuse? Where can you go for help if you have been abused?

Rainn - Help Guide - Crime Help - When an obsession turns into a Crime - Addictions.

Sexual Abuse is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using force or by taking advantage of another. When force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or (often pejoratively) molester. The term also covers any behavior by an adult or older adolescent towards a child to stimulate any of the involved sexually. The use of a child, or other individuals younger than the age of consent, for sexual stimulation is referred to as child sexual abuse or statutory rape.

At least 80,000 people in the UK are estimated to pose a sexual threat to children online, the home secretary is to reveal.

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command is a command of the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), and is tasked to work both nationally and internationally to bring online child sex offenders, including those involved in the production, distribution and viewing of child abuse material, to the UK courts.

You have to let kids know that there are bad people in the world, and if given the chance, those bad people will or might hurt you for what ever reason. The good thing is that there's not a lot of bad people in the world, even though there are many bad people in power, there are still not a lot of bad people in the world, mostly because people are born good. But it's always a good idea to protect yourself and reduce your risk and vulnerabilities to being victimized by bad people. So you have to learn how to be aware and how to be prepared if dangerous people cross your path. If you ever feel threaten or in danger you must escape and get help. If you do end up getting hurt in any way, you must understand that you will recover, as most people do. Remember, no one can take your soul, your soul is yours to keep. So stay strong, stay alert and play safe.

It's just not the lack of information and knowledge, it's when information becomes Distorted and Perverted it introduces numerous combinations of problems, problems that normally wouldn't even exist...illogical with an emphasis on "ill"....it's not just that you're doing something that you don't need to do, you're actually keeping yourself from doing the things that you really need to do, so you're causing more damage than you think.

Rape - Torture - Trauma - Abuse

Perverted is showing or appealing to bizarre or Deviant tastes. Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented. Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive. Change the inherent purpose or function of something.

Perversion is a type of human behavior that deviates from that which is understood to be orthodox or normal. Although the term perversion can refer to a variety of forms of deviation, it is most often used to describe sexual behaviors that are considered particularly abnormal, repulsive or obsessive. Perversion differs from deviant behavior, in that the latter covers areas of behavior (such as petty crime) for which perversion would be too strong a term. It is often considered derogatory, and, in psychological literature, the term paraphilia has been used as a replacement, though this term is controversial, and deviation is sometimes used in its place.

Reprobate is a a person without moral scruples that deviates from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.

Zoophilia is a paraphilia involving a sexual fixation on non-human animals. Bestiality is cross-species sexual activity between human and non-human animals. The terms are often used interchangeably, but some researchers make a distinction between the attraction (zoophilia) and the act (bestiality). Although sex with animals is not outlawed in some countries, in most countries, bestiality is illegal under animal abuse laws or laws dealing with buggery or crimes against nature.

Non-Reproductive Sexual Behavior in Animals consists of sexual activities animals participate in that do not lead to the reproduction of the species.

Paraphilia or sexual perversion and sexual deviation is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. Such attraction may be labeled sexual fetishism. List of Paraphilias (wiki).

Atypical is something deviating from normal expectations and somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal. Not representative of a group, class, or type.

Is sexual deviant behavior a Mental illness? Is it Demonic Possession? Is it a Lack of Self-Control? Is it a Power Trip? Is it a Lack of Morals? Is it a Addictive Personality? Or is it just a Bad Education, or is it just the lack of key information and knowledge? Freedom does not mean that you have the right to be an as*hole.

Sex and the Law deals with the regulation by law of human sexual activity. Sex laws vary from one place or jurisdiction to another, and have varied over time, and unlawful sexual acts are also called sex crimes. Some laws regulating sexual activity are intended to protect one or all participants, while others are intended to proscribe behavior that has been defined as a crime. For example, a law may proscribe unprotected sex if one person knows that he or she has a sexual disease or to protect a minor; or it may proscribe non-consensual sex, or because of a relationship between the participants, etc. In general, laws may proscribe acts which are considered either sexual abuse or behavior that societies consider to be inappropriate and against the social norms. Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual contact between two or more adults or two or more minors, and, depending on laws with regard to age of consent, sexual contact between an adult and a minor.

Circles of Support and Accountability are groups of volunteers with professional supervision to support sex offenders as they reintegrate into society after their release from incarceration. Evaluations of CoSA indicate that participation in a CoSA can result in statistically significant reductions in repeat sexual offenses in 70% of cases, relative to what would be predicted by risk assessment or matched comparison subjects. CoSA projects exist throughout Canada, the United Kingdom, and some regions of the United State.

Decadence which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behavior.

Eternal Damnation is the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell. Express strong disapproval of and to Reject as invalid.

Foibles is a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual. A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.

Deviance in sociology describes an action or behavior that violates social norms, including a formally enacted rule (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores). Although deviance may have a negative connotation, the violation of social norms is not always a negative action; positive deviation exists in some situations. This is where the norm is violated, yet the behavior can still be classified as positive or acceptable. It is the purview of criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists to study how these norms are created, how they change over time, and how they are enforced.

Taboo is a vehement prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake. Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. On a comparative basis taboos, for example related to food items, seem to make no sense at all as what may be declared unfit for one group by custom or religion may be perfectly acceptable to another. Whether scientifically correct or not, taboos are often meant to protect the human individual, but there are numerous other reasons for their existence.

Fixed Fantasy is a belief or system of beliefs held by a single individual to be genuine, but that cannot be verified in reality. The term is typically applied to individuals suffering from some type of psychiatric dysregulation, most often a personality disorder. The term is also used in the different context of psychoanalysis to distinguish between 'a normal transitory one and a fixed fantasy' with respect to the phantasised 'fulfilment in conscious or unconscious thought of the sexualised wish'.

Kink is the use of unconventional sexual practices, concepts or fantasies. The term derives from the idea of a "bend" (cf. a "kink") in one's sexual behaviour, to contrast such behaviour with "straight" or "vanilla" sexual mores and proclivities. It is thus a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behaviour. The term "kink" has been claimed by some who practice sexual fetishism as a term or synonym for their practices, indicating a range of sexual and sexualistic practices from playful to sexual objectification and certain paraphilias. In the 21st century the term "kink", along with expressions like BDSM, leather and fetish, has become more commonly used than the term paraphilia. Some universities also feature student organizations focused on kink, within the context of wider LGBTI concerns. In this setting, kink can be seen as one of the variations that make up the "Q" in LGBTQ. Kink sexual practices go beyond what are considered conventional sexual practices as a means of heightening the intimacy between sexual partners. Some draw a distinction between kink and fetishism, defining the former as enhancing partner intimacy, and the latter as replacing it. Because of its relation to "normal" sexual boundaries, which themselves vary by time and place, the definition of what is and is not kink varies widely as well.

When people experience intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, sounds, and so on, we see more problems. Sexual Arousal should only come from your lover. A misplaced arousal makes true arousal towards your partner seem insignificant and less meaningful. But Brain Plasticity tells us that there is no behavior that is permanent. Permanency only happens when the person does nothing to correct the behavior. Just because something is happening inside of you, this doesn't make an arousal true or accurate. Control over your mind and body comes from being aware and being more knowledgeable about the human brain and the human body. Every human is born with abilities, but if we don't use them, we lose them. People have become slaves to their impulses, unable to exercise control, controls that they were born with, but not skilled enough to know how to use them effectively.

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves as practicing BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture is usually dependent upon self-identification and shared experience. Indecent Exposure - Exploitation (public displays).

Financial Domination is a sexual fetish, in particular a practice of dominance and submission, where a submissive (money slave, finsub, pay pig, human ATM, or cash piggie) will give gifts and money to a financial dominant (money mistress, findomme, money domme, cash master, or findom).

Erotic Humiliation is consensual psychological humiliation performed in order to produce erotic excitement or sexual arousal. This can be for either the person(s) being humiliated and demeaned or the person(s) humiliating, or both. It is sometimes performed before spectators, including pornography and webcam viewers. It may be part of BDSM and other sexual roleplay, or accompanied by the sexual stimulation of the genitals (or other erotic region) of one or both parties in the activity.

Master/slave is a relationship in which one individual serves another in an authority-exchange structured relationship. Unlike Dominant/submissive structures found in BDSM in which love is often the core value, service and obedience are often the core values in Master/slave structures.

Dominatrix is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities. A dominatrix might be of any sexual orientation, but her orientation does not necessarily limit the genders of her submissive partners. The role of a dominatrix may not even involve physical pain toward the submissive; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks, or servitude. A dominatrix is typically a paid professional (pro-domme) as the term dominatrix is little-used within the non-professional BDSM scene.

Slavery Footprint - I'm with Lincoln

Womanizer is a man who engages in numerous casual sexual affairs with women.

Does Defrocking 400 Priests who have sexually abused children solve the problem of Sexual Abuse?

Rape - Dehumanizing - So you wonder why there are so many Sex Crimes?

Once you go against something natural, you increase the chance of having something unnatural happen. Do your research, and don't be a Ginny Pig.

You Can't Live without Air

Erotic Asphyxiation is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. This sexual practice is variously called asphyxiophilia, autoerotic asphyxia, hypoxyphilia. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a person to themselves. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper. The erotic interest in asphyxiation is classified as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Learning Breathing Techniques is Safer. Erotic Asphyxiation is dangerous and stupid?

Fainting Game or The Choking Game refers to intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain with the goal of inducing temporary loss of consciousness and euphoria. Why not just Learn How to Hold your Breath?

Staring - Gawking

Stop Staring at Me! There's a Big Difference between People Watching and Staring.

Staring is to fixate one's eyes at something.

Gaze is to look at with fixed eyes. Focus. Gaze Detection.

Spectator is a close observer and someone who looks at something.

Gawking is to look at something with amazement or look stupidly at someone. Rubber Neck.

Leer is to look at someone or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way.

Evil Eye is a look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm.

Dirty Look is a facial expression of disapproval, disgust, or anger.To look at in a threatening manner or disgusted manner.

Googly Eyes is eye-contact used to relay that your interest in another person. An amorously adoring expression. Googly Eyes are also small plastic craft supplies used to imitate eyeballs. Googly eyes traditionally are composed of a white plastic or card backing covered by a clear, hard-plastic shell, encapsulating a black plastic disk. The combination of a black circle over a white disk mimics the appearance of the sclera and pupil of the eye to humorous effect. The inner black disk is allowed to move freely within the larger clear plastic shell, which makes the eyes appear to move when the googly eyes are tilted or shaken.

The Invisible War (2012) (video)

Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against Gender Violence (video)

Eye F*cking - When does admiring a pretty face turn into something creepy?

Pervert or a Deviate is a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.

Safe City where people share their personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. Launched on 26 Dec 2012 and since then have collected over 4000 stories from over 50 cities in India and Nepal.

Stop Street Harassment - He for She

Bullying - Victimizing - Harassment

Emma Watson U.N. Speech (youtube)

I noticed while in NYC that a lot of women were walking around staring at their cellphones, which for me was nice because I can gaze at them without them knowing, and it's also good for women too because they don't have to make eye contact and feel awkward when ignorant people like me are looking at them only because they're nice looking. It's sad for me, and sad for them, WTF are we doing? 2018 update. I noticed a decline in people walking while staring at their cellphones. Text Neck.

Old Men Gawking - TV Show idea about the lives of Senior Citizens.

People Watching (just observing) - A quick glance is OK. Just take a brief look. Observation Flaws (sometimes it's just better to observe than to interact).

Gaze Detection - Knowing you're being Watched

If you encounter a black bear, do not make eye contact. If you make eye contact, black bears will take this as an act of aggression. Breaking eye contact with an animal like a baboon, will make the baboon perceive the person as non-threatening and might not consider the person to be a threat. But if a wild animal doesn't think that you are notice them, they might attack. If you see a cougar it's good to stand up tall, looking the cat right in the eyes and backing away slowly. Whatever you do, do not run away—that might trigger the cougar’s instinct to chase its prey. With a dog, eye contact is important to a dog, but you need to learn how to be respectful with our gaze and not stare. Watching a dog's eyes can give you an idea what they are thinking and how they are feeling.

I definitely observe people a lot, for different reasons and in different ways. I look at how they walk, I listen to how they talk, and how they stand and sit. It's interesting to me. But some people think that the reason that you're looking at them must be sexual or devious in some way. It's like they have never been around nice people before who actually pay attention to them. Or it might be that they have been manipulated by other people or manipulated by the media. Of course there are dangerous people in the world that you should be aware of. But you can't be so paranoid that you make assumptions or make false accusations or slander someone. You can't expect people to stop being nice or friendly to other people just because of some ignorant people can't take their minds out of the gutter and stop including other people in their perverted imagination. I would not judge anyone, and I would not blame people for this type ignorance, especially if they have been a victim of abuse or had a bad upbringing or a bad education. It's just sad that some people can jump to these crazy conclusions. But I do thank people for making me aware of their ignorant paranoia, I just hope that they try not to make a profile out of it or make it a habit. If you see something than say something, but just remember, observation flaws happen and your eyes may be lying to you.

It's sad to know that being nice to some people or giving someone attention could be so misunderstood, especially when that person feels that you're being nice to them because they assume that you want something from them. I don't blame people for their ignorance, it's not their fault. People should be aware, because there are criminals who do take advantage of people. So when someone does make a false accusation, I don't get mad at them, I forgive them. I just hope they educate themselves more and stop making the world an ugly place. This is what I have learned, be careful who you look at, be careful who you talk to, be careful who you're nice to, be careful of what you say, especially jokes, and be careful who you associate with. Ignorant scumbags can be extremely dangerous, especially when they can accuse you of things that are completely false and totally ignorant. People need to stop Cherry Picking Data and start living in reality. People are murdered just because of their religious affiliation without ever being charged with a crime. Women were murdered just because some morons thought they were witch's. And peoples lives were ruined by McCarthyism just because some scumbags thought that some people were communists, and they did this own their own, and not in a court of law. Some people are so f*cked up in the head and they don't even know it. They like to blame people and point the finger at anyone who fits their paranoid delusions. So be careful, be very careful, there are some f*cked up people out there in the world who believe that its their right to be an asshole and talk shit and spread rumors about anyone they don't like. This goes way beyond slander, these scumbags are criminals. And there are some people who are jealous of other peoples popularity. And they will say or do ignorant things to discredit someone just because other people like that person. Not to say that people should not know about certain facts about another person, as long as they are facts and not just hearsay. This is why people are innocent until proven guilty, and the key word here is prove. Ignorant people make assumptions and ignorant people pretend to know things. So the only thing that ignorant people prove is that they are extremely dangerous, and not just ignorant.

Not all men are sex-crazed maniacs, but most men do crave sex or have sexual cravings, as most women do, but maybe not in the same way as men. You're looking at someone and they're looking at you, so you keep looking at them, and then you see that they are still looking at you, and now you are both wondering, why is this person looking at me? Like a positive feedback loop, I'm only doing this because you are. i Hollaback - No More.

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"You can't pretend to know what my eyes see, all you can do is ask me what I'm looking at, and then you have to ask what I'm thinking about, because what I'm looking at might not even be related to what I'm thinking about, don't be a presumptuous idiot."

When I do find myself staring at someone or looking at something, it's mostly because I found something interesting for some reason. I might just be admiring a persons style or fashion sense, or just appreciating their beauty or just curious about their behavior. It's kind of like when someone stares at a statue or looks at a painting. But what if the statue or painting looked back at you and said, "what are you staring at?" And I would say, "something interesting and beautiful, but just on the outside of course". And then I would say, "If my staring bothers you, I'm sorry to have bothered you, I meant you no harm. I only meant to admire you, and not to steal your beauty in anyway. But just to let you know, I'm beautiful on the inside, which means that I am also beautiful on the outside, just not in the same way as you of course. But even a poison plant can be beautiful. So if you are poisonous, I promise not to touch you. I will only admire you from a distance, with your permission of course." or I might just say, "I wasn't looking at anything in particular, I was just looking in that direction. My mind was somewhere else."