What's The Difference Between Rape and Molestation?
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Rape is molestation.  Molestation does not necessarily mean rape.  Molestation is any type of contact that may cause sexual gratification by the molester.  Molestation could be as simple as someone grabbing your rear through your pants.  Rape means sex; anal, oral, or vaginal penetration.  There are legal differences that vary from state to state.  These differences define the severity of the abuse.  In general sex with a minor is always rape.  However the age of a minor also varies from state to state.
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Rape:\n\n§ 3123. Involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.\n(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a felony of the first degree when he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with a complainant:\n\nby forcible compulsion; \nby threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution; \nwho is unconscious or where the person knows that the complainant is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring; \nwhere the person has substantially impaired the complainant's power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance; \nwho suffers from a mental disability which renders him or her incapable of consent; \nwho is less than 13 years of age; or \nwho is less than 16 years of age and the person is four or more years older than the complainant and the complainant and person are not married to each other.
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Rape involves penetration.  What you're describing comes under the broader heading of "sexual harassment" and yes, you can face legal consequences for touching or even verbally harassing women without their consent.  Be respectful.
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That all depends on where it occured and exactly what occured. Some places have different crimes for "lewd acts" versus vaginal intercourse, and each state has different laws for all of the various statutory rape scenarios that are possible.\n\nEdit: For instance, California law requires a sentence of not more than one year for having someone more than 3 years older having sex with a minor.
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Pedophilia is a power motivated crime, like other rapes.  It has nothing to do with sex, so castration would not be effective, it's their mind that is the offending organ.  We have 10's of 1000's of men who commit this crime,  very, very few women, how come we are worried about it?  Get rid of the masses of men and then worry about the very few women.  There was a village where a lot of women were raped after dark.  The King said "Establish a curfew for the women..." The Queen said,  "It's the men who a raping, give them a curfew."  The point is-establish your priorities.
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Statutory rape is having sex with a minor when you are 18 or above this is illegal. corruption is showing them how to sell drugs or other things that are illegal or not allowed for minors
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Honey, please don't listen to what the first person wrote. You are not required to dress "conservetly" in order to have an expectation of being free from rape. It is not how a girl/woman dresses which determines if she may become a rape victem, OK? Nothing you do or don't do would make it your fault some sick perverted A-hole rapes. Rape has nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with power and controll.\n\nNow, if you have real concerns about somebody hurting you at school, home or in your neighborhood, I suggest you go and talk to a school official right away. The school counselor would be a good person, or a teacher who you feel safe with or another person you have trust for. If you are safe at home, then I suggest strongly you discuss your fears with your parents. If you have good, decent, hardworking and loving parents, they would want you to take these fears to them. If you were my daughter and had these worries I would want you to come and talk to me.\n\nIf somebody has already touched you in a way you know you should not be touched, it is not your fault. Often those who do things wrong want those they did it to thinking they are responsible for what happened. This is to get you to stay quiet and not tell anyone what happened. Sometimes they will even threaten more harm to you or to harm your family. This is 99% of the time just a threat to get you to stay quiet. If you stay quiet though, they will think they can do this to you again, and maybe do more the next time.\n\nIt sounds like somebody has already done something innapropreate. It sounds like you need some help in getting away from this person. I really srtongly advise you to go to your parents or somebody in charge at school right away. I mean as soon as you read this. \n\nIt is NOT your fault, even if you kept quiet for a time or if you did not scream, or even if you were curious what it might be like. You are a young kid and anybody who would do such a thing took advantage of your young age. That is NOT your fault. It is normal to be curious, all kids are, but that is why it is so wrong for older people to touch kids in innapropriate manners. It is taking advantage of a normal curiousity kids have, normal developmental curiousness. While it is OK to be curious it is NOT OK for anybody to do anything innapropriate with a girl your age. OK? So don't feel any shame if something already happened. Just go and tell somebody so this person can't do anything more to you or to anybody else your age. You need to be reasrred that ALL the fault lies with anybody who would do anything remotely sexual with a girl your age. You are way too young for this sort of behaviors. You are an innocent kid and do not deserve to fear anything or anybody. \n\nI seriously believe something has already happened or you would not be so afraid of rape at your age. Kids your age just don't go around fearing rape for no reason at all. Unless somebody older in your family has put this fear in your head. If so, I want you to understand that there are not really that many bad people in the world. \n\nI will not tell you there are no bad people in the world. You know very well there are. However, there are just way more good, decent, kind, caring, hardworking people than bad people who hurt kids. Even amoung bad people, people who hurt kids are thought of as the worst sort of bad person. Even amoung bad people, people who go to jail for doing bad things, dislike those who would hurt kids. Those who hurt kids have to be kept away from the other people who did bad things, or those others will try to hurt the bad person who hurt kids. So, while there are people who break our laws, people who do some bad things, the number of them who hurt kids is much smaller than you think.\n\nNow, this does not mean there are not people who hurt children out there. There is. But if you take some safety percautions you should be fine. OK? If you don't go out after dark by your
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Stachatory rape means someone is underage but has consented to sex. Being underage they are not considered a proper age to make such a decision, so its stachatory rape. Unconcented sex is just rape but rape of a youth is sometimes punished even more.
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Yes,I believe they should be completely the same.That sick teacher who did her 13yr old student should still be in jail.And why in he** does she still get custody of her kids?What 30yr old in their right mind would be attracted to a 13yr old kid?If it had been a man,he would probably be dead in jail now.Molestation is molestation,no matter who commits the crime.
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Rape happens all the time, unfortunately.  I'm guessing it's the media that focuses more on celebrities who get accused of it because it makes a bigger splash.  I'm not sure they actually have a higher rate of crime than the general population.
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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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Better to learn where on your own body you can push to pass out, so you dont have to experience the kinds of things you can look forward to when you get thrown in prison for child molesting.  Im not sure, but merely asking a question like that might get you put on an FBI watch list.
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No means no and stop means stop.  Sex is only consensual while consent is given and consent can be withdrawn at any time.   If sex continues after consent has been retracted, then it is rape.  There is no such thing as unconditional or unrvokable consent.
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Sexual abuse hmm.. there are alot of diff.percautions I can list. Try being forceful and saying NO very harshly if you've done that and they persist then it can be considered rape depending on what they are doing.Here are 4 warning signs they are a space invader,they seem distracted,he wants you alone, he wants you wasted.
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Some very good answers already given. I will add this: at least 10% of those seeking help at Rape-Crises Centers are men who have been raped. Mostly they have been raped by other "straight" men. Rape is an act of violence and violation. It is not a sex act although sexual organs may be involved. Many more rapes are committed than are ever reported. \n\nIf the man is not a willing partner and the act is forced upon him, whatever that act involves, that is a form of rape. If a man cannot give consent (drugged, unconscience, mentally impaired or mentally incompetent), most juries would consider that act rape.\n\n"Sued" is rightly questioned by other answerers. Of course one can sue for damages and doctor's costs. Rape is a felony and really belongs in criminal court. A rapist belongs in jail.  Is that rapist still responsible for helping pay back the survivor? Of course, and that is the civil suit.\n\nGood and difficult topic. Thanks for the question.
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When someone is molested its when a person touches you in a place that you normally wouldnt have anyone else touch you (such as your breats, vagina, or penis)and it makes you very uncomfortable. It could be someone you know or a stranger, but you dont like it, so that makes it very wrong and harmful. It can scar some people for life.
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Statutory rape is basically various types of touching contact with a boy or girl under a certain ages.   The penalties genreally vary depending on the age of the victim, the age of the perpetrator in some cases (where he or she may also be a minor), the relationship between the perpetrator and victim (strangers, trusted adult such as teacher, baysitter) and the type of touch involved.\n\nThese various categories can be found in your state's criminal laws or criminal statutes as opposed to civil statutes. The penalties as opposed to the definitions of the crimes may be in different places in the statute.  You need to play around with it and do the reading once you get to the criminal statutes.  You could probably do a Google search with your state name and criminal statutes.  Most of the time if you get to your state court site and look at the sites' links there will be a link to the state statutes.  Maybe better you could go to Findlaw which a very large site with all types of legal information.  The web address is  http://www.findlaw.com.  All of the states and their statutes/laws can generally be found and searched via Findlaw.  There are also many articles written explaining answers to questions and you will find the answers are far better than this one.  You can even try searching using the would "rape" but the word "rape" may not be used at all in the legal definition in your state.  What constitutes a rape varies.  It can be a crime for a mere improper touching of certain parts of the body that may not even seems sexual to you.   The question you are interested in seems to do with the "age of consent" which should be implied when reading the statute.  Statutes/laws describe prohibited behavior not permissible behavior.  It won't say what age is proper let's say (except as to a definition of a minor or a dependent - which will likely be in a whole other section of the statutes, domestic relations or guardianship, let's say.  It's complicated stuff.) The statutes will also give you the punishments but you will likely need to go to another section for that. The statute will tell you the ages that the illegal conduct applies.  In my state,  a person can even be charged with a sexual crime even though the victim is over 16 but under 18 (or maybe 18 and under I am not sure) but only under limited circumstances such as if the perpetrator is a person with whom the victim has a special trusting relationship, maybe his or her current teacher or current pastor.  It may also be relevant if the victim was "chaste" (a virgin more or less) at the time of contact and thus making it illegal or enhanced penalties. There are so many things to consider and I am really not up on the fine points. The laws change too. So what's criminal now may not be next year and vice versa.\n\n I would hazard to say that generally under 16 is thought of a "jail bait but that CANNOT be relied upon as you can read from this answer.\n\nYou need to know that nothing in this answer should be considered legal advice and you must ask an attorney licensed in your particular state to practice law the question or questions you have before relying on the actual information.\n\nI hope this helped you somewhat as opposed to confusing you more.\nPS remember the spelling is "statutory" because it refers to "statutes" or the law and the definitions of the term under the law.