Rape: Psychology, Prevention and Impact
Marcia Cohen and Sherrie H. McKenna
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Objective
To help students formulate responses to situations in which they might find themselves threatened by a rapist. This lesson should be used after the students have completed and discussed the fact vs. myth survey. Male students should be asked to put themselves in the place of the females in the situations.
Materials
Paper and pencil (if done as written exercise)
Strategy: Ask the students to respond in writing or verbally. Before using this lesson the teacher should discuss with the class prevention tactics (see Appendix A). Several of the books in the teacher bibliography have short case studies that could be used in class to illustrate the actual circumstances under which rapes have occurred. Sharing these with students can be helpful in dispelling the notion that only women who put themselves in dangerous positions are raped.
What would you do if:
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1. You were home alone and a man asked to use the telephone in your apartment to call a service station.
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2. You were being driven home from a party by a man you like, and he stopped the car in a lonely area and began to force himself on you.
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3. You had been babysitting at a neighbor’s house. The husband returned home first and started kissing you and fondling your body.
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4. You had gone to the corner store at night for cigarettes; a man you had seen around the neighborhood followed you down the street. It is two blocks from your house, and no one else is outside.
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5. You awakened at 2 in the morning and a man was in your bed with a knife at your throat.