Female students are at greater risk of sexual violence than ever before

It is, rape is over after a few minutes, a false accusation is something that can put someone innocent in jail for many years and forever ruin their reputation.

It is, rape is over after a few minutes, a false accusation is something that can put someone innocent in jail for many years and forever ruin their reputation.

Rape effects most people for the rest of their lives love.

Its so hard to convict someone for rape that I doubt many/any students have gone to jail over a false accusation.

No it doesn't, it rarely leaves any permanent damage.

Psychological effects isn't a real tangible thing, every action effects someone psychologically and not everybody reacts in the same way.
Simply making fun of someone can have worse psychological effects than raping them.

Rape is a form of assault and has to be looked at as a physical action from a legal viewpoint. A lot of people make too big a deal of what it really is, getting beaten up is far more damging generally.

Depending on the circomstances, a false accusation can aswell and have implications for they're prospects

Depending on the circumstance, so can rape

Psychological effects isn't a real tangible thing, every action effects someone psychologically and not everybody reacts in the same way.
Simply making fun of someone can have worse psychological effects than raping them.

Rape is a form of assault and has to be looked at as a physical action from a legal viewpoint. A lot of people make too big a deal of what it really is, getting beaten up is far more damging generally.

Rape effects most people for the rest of their lives love.

Its so hard to convict someone for rape that I doubt many/any students have gone to jail over a false accusation.

It may be difficult to diagnose or understand but that doesn't make it any less real. Almost all mental health diagnosis is through the observation of symptoms, due to how little we know about what actually causes it, do you take issue with the validity of other mental health problems like depression and schizophrenia as well?

I wasn't talking about the legal view of rape, I don't see what that's got to do with it. The fact that other traumatic experiences may or may not be more damaging is irrelevant, it's not a contest. You're right that people react differently to certain experiences, though I'm pretty sure there will be a much stronger correlation between being raped and developing psychological problems than there is between being made fun of and developing them. A study in America found that almost a third of rape victims were diagnosed with PTSD, for example.

Rape effects most people for the rest of their lives love.

Its so hard to convict someone for rape that I doubt many/any students have gone to jail over a false accusation.

The physical impact of rape may be over in a few minutes, that is so long as no violent injuries were incurred which put you in hospital, but the psychological trauma will last the victim years and years, in many cases their whole lives.

Rape victims are at increased likelihood of: severe depression, eating disorders, PTSD, self-harm, flashbacks, addiction,dissociation,pregnancy, suicide. How dare you diminish an absolutely horrendous assault to something merely 'over after a few minutes.'

The incidence of victims reporting rape is extremely low, a rapist is highly unlikely to ever be caught because victims are terrified of not being believed, of being told that they're lying, that they're just out to ruin an innocent man's life. 98% of actual rapists will not spend a day in prison. This is why there is a drive to push victims to report their attacker, and attitudes like yours will massively discourage them, it is highly likely given the high incidence of rape that a victim will come across your post, feel further ashamed, humiliated and dirty.

Yes there are cases when men are falsely accused, but in reality they are few and far between. Why must they always be mentioned only when rape is talked about alone? The plight of these small amount of wrongly accused attackers is important, and deserves its own thread and own conversation, why only mention it in response to an article about rape victims?

The amount of victim blaming on this thread is sickening, the victim is not to blame because they 'put themselves in that situation', or because 'they were drunk'. The reason they were raped was that they were unfortunate enough to encounter a rapist, simple.

The ignorance of this is astounding, I suggest that you take down this disgusting post down before a victim of rape comes across it. It is highly likely to further dissuade them from reporting their attacker, or even to drive them over the edge into suicide.

If you had been raped, you sure as hell wouldn't think that 'people make too big a deal' out of it.

It's worrying how many people (generally men) will dismiss the claims of women or downplay the effects of rape. Not taking claims seriously is why rapists get away with it.

I've seen the impact rape and sexual violence in three people close to me. It's horrible, it can turn someone from an extrovert into someone scared of their own shadow. In only one case did the police take it serious enough to investigate properly. Eight year jail sentence for violent gang rape. Says a lot about our attitude to rape.

So depression, PTSD, self-harm,flashbacks,addiction, STD, eating disorders and suicide are not permanent? Because the majority of times, these last a lifetime.

Suicide is pretty damn permanent is it not?

These 'studies' all have an agenda behind them and you shouldn't trust them, its all based on trying to break down relationships between men and women, foster distrust between them both. Peope who have bad psychological trauma from sexual abuse were usually victims of it many times, over a very long period of time, similar to someone who is beaten everyday would develop psychological problems. Women who were raped once for a few minutes and claim it ruined their lives forever are just classic attention seekers, nobody is that weak.

Not to say it isn't bad because it is, but I'd personally take being raped once over going to prison for many years over something I didn't do, go on the sex offenders list and have my reputation ruined forever, which is the source of what we were talking about.

It depends on how often somebody is raped, similar to any other type of abuse, once instance of it is unlikely to effect you for the rest of your life, I'd know, I was a victim of it on one occasion.

From an article in the Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article4431028.ece

I admit to have objectified girls and wanted to conqueor them but I never got as far as even kissing a girl. When i was at uni a few years ago there wasnt much of the uni lad culture. in my Computer Science course no-one lost their viginity at uni.