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WASHINGTON — Behind the debate over whether to publicly identify rape victims is an age-old stigma that has persisted two decades of attempts to erase it.
Myths about victims of rape slowly fading
The Associated Press
The new thinking is that rape is a crime of violence, hostility and aggression, just like any other crime.
The problem, as illustrated by the three-ring media circus about the report of a rape at the Kennedys' house, is that in a rape 'rape isn't out like any other crime.
It's a crime that involves sex. But sex itself is not a crime. So the most basic question of whether a crime occurred may be reduced to his word against hers. That puts unusual scrutiny on the victim's own integrity and virtue.
It's also a very intimate crime. A rapist is trying to take something far more personal than money, in an act far more intrusive than stealing.
"The victim is both assaulted and sexually violated. There's no other situation where those two experiences come together in such an unpleasantly meaningful way," said psychologist David Silber, a George Washington University professor specializing in crime and violence.
Power struggle
Rape is a crime that in almost all cases pits men against women — his power against hers.
But the woman who has been raped may not be praised as a robbery victim would be for giving in to an attacker who is threatening her life. Instead, she may be reproached for not resisting.
"You can come into work and say somebody broke into my apartment last night and stole my TV," said Helen Neuborne, executive director of the NOW Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
In her landmark 1975 book, "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape," Susan Brownmiller said that biology gave men the structural capacity to rape and left women vulnerable and unable to retaliate.
"But if somebody came in and raped you in bed, that's very hard to talk about. It's a combination of the personal violation and wondering, What will people think of me? Am I dirty? Am I immoral?"
She traced the origin of rape to prehistoric times and said it entered the law through the back door as a sacrificial offering, but not until Babylonian and Hebrew cultures.
The attacker in such cases was usually sentenced to death by drowning or stoning. Brownmiller wrote. So the victim, who was viewed as a adulterer, adulterous and irrevocably defiled, regardless of the circumstances.
The concept of woman as seductress and the root of sexual evil goes back to Genesis, said Nada Stotland, chairperson of the American Psychiatric Association's committee on women.
"You have original sin," she said. "You have Eve been blamed for the sinual sexuality, which is supposedly sinful." The woman was Eve's fault for tempting man.
Even now, in some places, that imare dictates moves and behavior.
"I if a woman shows three inches of flesh on her arm in some Muslim countries, it's her fault if she gets raped because that was so enticing to men," Stolland said. "It's not incumbent on the men to curb their impulses. It's incumbent on the women to keep from exciting them."
Neuborne points to Kuwaiti women raped during the upper upheaval in their country as another example of a culture that angered much in some parts of the world.
"They say they are useless," she said of the raped women. "They're never able to get married. Their families are disowning them."
Slow progress
In the United States, the last 20 years have seen some progress toward breaking down the stereotype of raped women as damaged goods, somehow responsible for what happened to them.
Early in the 1970s, rave victims began talking about their experiences at feminist conferences. Women set up rape crisis centers and hotlines, took classes in self-defense, taught new law notices, and stand firm to seize those halls, police departments and courts to the plight of the rave victim.
To some extent they succeeded. Juries are no longer advised to treat a victim's testimony with caution. Defense attorneys aren't supposed to dredge up a victim's sexual history. Marital rape is a crime in some states. There are special training doctors, the social country for doctors, social workers, judges lawyers and police officers who deal with rape.
"We are obviously more 20th century than Kuwait," Neubearne said. "But there's still a piece of that attitude that people can't let go of. They still believe that a raped woman has a scarlet R on her chest."
Women still, for example, must work hard to establish their credibility in a rape trial. No one can prevent a victim from being raped or stories about an alleged rape victim.
Perhaps the most telling evidence of the lingering stigma of rape is that according to several studies, at least 40 crimes do not report the crime to police.
Mixed messages
Brownmiller attributes the confusion in part to Freud, who contended masochism was a sign of mature female sexuality. In other words, rape is what a woman really wants.
The low reporting rate also reflects the considerable confusion some people have about what exactly constitutes rape. This is apparent in surveys of both men and women who say they have never committed or been accused of rape, to a series of questions that embody the legal definition of the crime.
Such mixed messages continue to dominate popular culture, said Denise Snyder, executive director of the American Red Cross Crisis Center, founded in 1972.
"Wherever you want to look, you see sex and violence linked together," she said. "You see a norm where women are supposed to be dominant, but men are supposed to be dominant and that combination is what makes good sex."
Snyder and others say attitudes toward rape victims are continuing to change, if incrementally. But while the stigma may eventually fade, there will never be a way to change the nature of rape.
"It's an extremely intimate, profoundly upsetting event," said Stotland. "Even if you weren't ashamed of it, you wouldn't want it in the paper. There are certain things you want to deal with in your own time and convey to people of your own choice."
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