The Term Has Been Around For A Long Long Time. So When Did The Term"Rape "Become Rape? and?
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Rape has always meant rape, but the legal definitions of when consent has been given have changed over time. Before 1975 married women could never be raped by their husbands, because they were considered as having consented by marrying. Slaves were considered non-persons, so their consent was a non issue. Even if it were, slaves had no legal standing in court.\n\nRape has included using or threatening violence to force someone to have sex and even having sex with someone too young for many hundreds of years, as you can see at the site below, detailing the proceedings of the Old Bailey from the 17th century.
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The origin of the word f**k is lost in the sands of time, I'm afraid, but most of the apocryphal stories about it (that it's an acronym for "fornication under consent of the King", or "for unlawful carnal knowledge" for instance) don't even seem to have a shred of truth.\n\nIn all likelihood, the word is descended from the German word "ficken", which means "to strike, or club".  When the Saxons invaded England and their language merged with the natives and became entwined in middle English, the word became "fucken" (no, I'm not kidding).\n\nSo, considering what a good, hard f**k is actually like (sorry to be crude, but think about any time you've seen a guy going hog wild in the sack and you'll get the point), you can see where people would pick up using the word as slang for the act, especially considering what an erect penis looks like... and from there it became the ever so infamous "f-word".\n\n=)
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It's not just a law about rape, but it's a law that encompasses a lot of different offenses. It's called the Statute of Limitations, and it specifies a length of time in which a person can come foreward and accuse someone of committing a crime against someone. Rape is only one of those offenses someone can be accused of. The time length depends on the offense and severity, but the time limit is typically 5-7 years.\n\nIf five years have passed but the case and criminal hearings are in progress, the person can still be convicted and sentenced.
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The application of the word to human intercourse dates at least as far back as Proto-Germanic times, about 2500 years ago.  The form was *fukan "to have intercourse".  It was not vulgar originally.  Indeed, it started life as a euphemism for another word (perhaps lost in time).  The original meaning in Proto-Indo-European (about 6000 years ago) of *pug- was "to strike" (*pug- is the ancestor word for *fukan).
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Do an essay on how lanaguage is ever changing and how our lives (cultural, techonological) etc has affected this. For example, 20, or even 10 years ago, did anyone know what LOL meant?
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As long as 12 year old girls are being raped by their fathers and or other relatives. And as long as guys are giving women Rohipnol at parties and as long as strangers are raping ad robbing women. I think they have the right to choose how to handle such situations.
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Yeah.... that is called rape....
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i believe that the difference is that rape involves penetration. molestation is just touching without permission. either way its a police matter and they should be consulted
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rape. it should be self explanatory
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Rape happens. Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.  it happens. It happened to me.
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A long long time ago.
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I think as long as, at the time of the encounter it was consenting. Than it's not rape, it's just a bad mistake. I know, I've gotten drunk and did a fat chick and regretted it. It wasn't rape though, just bad decision making.
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The funny thing is that cultures and countries have been inventing laws about what age is old enough to have sex and what isn't, and who it's okay for people to have sex with and who it isn't for thousands of years, and it really has had little or no effect on what people do.  people do what they want to do.  the only laws regarding sex that serve any purpose are those governing predatory behaviour; if two fourteen year olds have sex it's hard to see how that can be a crime (misguided perhaps, but a criminal offense?), but if a 30-year-old has sex with a 15-year-old, that's just predatory.
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Elaborating on a previously-discussed topic for your final exam makes sense.\n\nLet's define rape as forcing sex upon someone who doesn't want it -- either can be male or female. Let's also assume that if rape were to end, it would end for all time. Not end for ten minutes, then resume again.\n\nSince I have never been raped and future rape would be impossible, there would be no direct effect. Not to sound insensitive to rape victims, but this would be a nice relief to me.\n\nI imagine that this would affect four other groups of people -- past rapists and their victims, future rape victims who now shall never be raped and future rapists who shall be unable to perform their tragic act -- and since I surely interact with members of all groups, my life would change through my interactions with these people.\n\nWe can remove from consideration those who have never been raped but would be raped in the future, but now shall not, because rape has ended, as well as their rapists, because they will all live unaffected by this tragedy (thankfully).\n\nSo it comes down to the changes in previous rape victims and their rapists, and how my interactions with them would change me.\n\nI simply do not know how this would affect victims of past rape, so I do not know how this would affect me.\n\n---\n\nIt's also possible to assume that rape would end because ALL sex would end (a sure-fire way to end rape is to simply end sex, yes?). In this manner, there would probably be more bitter people in this world, which would surely make me more upset (esp. after not having any sex). In the long run, there'd probably be even fewer people to interact with, assuming there's no alternative method of procreation utilized or created.
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The english language changes over time. Words that once ment one thing can mean a totally different thing a few years later. We don't hi-jack words. Society as a hole changes them and accepts them. I could give you countless exsamples of how words and thier means have changed. If you don't believe me, go ask a High School engilsh teacher some of the most recent changes that they hear every day.
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The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the phrase has been used for about 300 years to refer to measurements that are based on experience instead of exact science.\n\nThe "wife-beating" definition was made up by a feminist sometime in the 1970s.
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Seems to be unknown. Can't find any single person credited, so maybe the term just came into popular use around the same time (journalists?). \n\nMaybe look for the earliest use of that term, going back to summer 1929 (predating the Wall Street crash by a few months).\n\n(Does anyone have access to WSJ.com archives, do they go back that far?)