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minds fed with easy access to porn. Also, the profanity of using vulgar lyrics in songs needs to be curbed.
There are item numbers where the woman is projected as no more than an object of desire. This causes
women to be viewed as commodities, meant to be consumed and ravished. Sexually obsessed rapists don’t
consider women as human beings but as an object that can be violated with impunity.
THERE ARE RAPE MYTHS-
No means yes; a lady never says yes; women like to be taken by force; women who drink are an easy lay;
outgoing women like to experiment in all areas including sex, etc. By perpetuating such myths women have
been deprived of their voice or agency to exercise her choice. Most of the time the accused are not even
aware that what they have done amounts to rape. They admit to forced sex but refuse to accept it as an act of
rape. In some tribal areas, there are customary practices of taking women by force. Lack of safety measures
also plays apart. In villages, women have to venture out at night as there are no toilet facilities at home. This
puts them at risk.
RAPES CASES INDIA CAN NEVER FORGET
1. ARUNA SHANBAUG CASE
2. MATHURA RAPE CASE
3. SCARLETT KEELING RAPE AND MURDER
4. PRIYADARSHINI MATTOO RAPE AND MURDER CASE
5. NIRBHAYA CASE
6. IRMANA RAPE CASE
7. JISHA RAPE AND MURDER CASE
8. BHANWARI DEVI GANG RAPE CASE
HOW TO STOP RAPE CULTURE
Education, gender sensitization and legal awareness are indispensable to control rapes. We need better
policing and cctv mapping of desolate areas. Cognitive restructuring is needed to remove the myths clogging
our minds. Behavioural and emotional intelligence is very different from academic intelligence. We need to
question the accused and not the victim, the time of rape or the dress she wore. Society needs to stigmatize
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