Hey, Can A Woman "Ask To Get Raped"?

It was called 'Heroin Chic'. Why that should be sexually appealing to some I don't know, but apparently it is.

Hawkeye's got a good point, it you decriminalize rape, the number of rapes will go down dramatically in crime reports!

He's a ******* genius!

It was not about the erotic, it was about a consistent element of design. We have shabby chic interior design and the fashion people have been doing the same idea (what ever they label it). We live in the age of the $350 t-short and the $1,500 pair of ripped up jeans. That needs the right face and hair to sell it.

Hmmmm.... Maybe, but I doubt it. It was used to sell $5000.00 dresses as well as distressed jeans. Some people interpret the look as a come-on. 'Go ahead, **** me, I don't care'.

We need to check ourselves on our opinions of others worth by judgement of their personal style.

the face and the hair are decided by the people who make the clothes, and what they care about is their art and also selling clothes. What turns you on comes far down the list of their priorities.

Really? You believe that?

If you're saying we as unrelated adults should have no say in these young girls lives or even how they come off, we agree.

On June 15, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank struck down Minnesota's law allowing for the civil commitment of so-called sexually violent predators. SVP laws allow a person to be locked away indefinitely after he has completed his maximum prison sentence. Twenty states and the federal government have passed such laws, and over 5,000 SVPs are incarcerated at an annual cost in excess of 450 million dollars.

Judge Frank found Minnesota's law unconstitutional because it continued to hold people after they were no longer dangerous. The next day, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California's SVP law did not violate the Constitution because, as Judge Susan Graber wrote, "a state rationally may decide that sexually violent crime is qualitatively more dangerous than other kinds of violent crime."

These cases came out differently in part because Judge Frank considered evidence of SVP dangerousness, while the Ninth Circuit for the most part did not. Shirking facts is nothing new when it comes to sex offender laws. In Kansas v Hendricks, the U.S. Supreme Court simply accepted as true the legislature's claim that SVPs are "extremely dangerous" and their "likelihood of engaging in repeat acts of predatory sexual violence is high."

Yet dangerousness is critical to the constitutionality of SVP laws. Many people support putting away sex offenders forever, but the Constitution prohibits a person from being punished twice for the same crime. Legally, a state may not hold a sex offender past his release date because it feels he deserves more time, but it may civilly commit him if it can prove that he is mentally ill and dangerous.

In a 2013 paper published in the Brooklyn Law Review, we questioned this central premise -- that there is a small, readily identifiable segment of the population so dangerous public safety demands they be locked away. If this claim were true we would expect to see what criminologists term an "incapacitation effect" -- in other words, removing these dangerous people from the community should have a negative impact on the rate of crimes we believe they are at risk of committing. Specifically, we would expect to see less sexual homicide, forcible rape, and child sexual abuse.

Of course it's also possible that SVP laws have an impact on the incidence of certain crimes because they deter would-be sex offenders from violating the law. A deterrence theory is modeled on a rational choice view where if the costs of violating a law are high enough a person will choose not to offend. Such would be the case if a would-be sex offender decided not to transgress because he didn't want to risk lifetime commitment as a SVP.

In our analysis we used panel data on U.S. states over the last few decades to examine the impact of SVP laws on the incidence of sex-related homicide and forcible rape. We also used data collected in the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System to examine the impact of SVP legislation on the incidence of non-fatal child sexual abuse. Since underreporting poses problems in accurately measuring the incidence of sex crimes, we additionally examined gonorrhea rates, a common proxy for the prevalence of sexual abuse.

We found SVP laws have had no discernible impact on the incidence of sex crimes or gonorrhea. We found neither an incapacitation nor a deterrence effect. Our findings may seem surprising, but they are consistent with a 2003 Department of Justice study that found just 5.3% of sex offenders were rearrested for a new sex crime within three years of release from prison. They also make sense given the advanced age of SVPs. Studies show that, like other types of offenders, as sex offenders age their recidivism rate drops. Our data indicate that the median age at admission for an SVP is roughly 43.

No empirical study can "prove a zero." However, they do shift the burden back on to proponents to justify programs that have no demonstrable impact on stated objectives. This is particularly true when resources are tight; arguably criminal justice dollars would be better spent on the many thousands of rape kits that have been collected and yet never tested.

Minnesota has already said it will challenge Judge Frank's decision, and Tim Seeboth indicated he would appeal to a full judge panel of the Ninth Circuit. It's possible that the Supreme Court will get another chance to decide the constitutionality of SVP laws. Whatever happens, jurists should follow Judge Frank's embrace of empirical evidence and not just defer to unjustified assumptions about sex offender dangerousness. The stakes are too high, not just for the individuals facing lifetime commitment, but for society as a whole

An Olympic gymnastics coach facing child molestation and sexual misconduct charges in Indianapolis was found dead in his jail cell on Saturday night in an apparent suicide, authorities said.

The coach, Marvin Sharp, 49, was discovered just after 8 p.m. at the county jail where he was being held, Marion County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Katie Carlson said. Authorities believe he committed suicide, she said.

Sharp was arrested last month after authorities raided his home and found thousands of video and image files containing child pornography, NBC affiliate WTHR reported.

Sharp, who opened Sharp's Gymnastics Academy 14 years ago, sent over 100 athletes to national championships, according to the academy's website.

In 2008, two of his gymnasts — Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan — won silver medals at the Olympic games in Bejing.

According to criminal court documents, one young student described a recent two-year period when Sharp took "hundreds if not thousands of photos of her in various poses."

Sharp would allegedly touch her inappropriately, the documents say, and at one point he asked her to wear a straightjacket.

In an interview with police, Sharp confirmed the photo-shoots but described the photographs as "muscle pictures" and said the student's mother authorized them, according to the documents. Sharp told police he did not mean to make the student "feel uncomfortable," the documents say.

Sharp was being held on four counts each of child molestation and sexual conduct with a minor, according to jail records. He was booked on Aug. 24.

More than 20 percent of female undergraduates at an array of prominent universities said this year they were victims of sexual assault and misconduct, echoing findings elsewhere, according to one of the largest studies ever of college sexual violence.


Here are key data and reactions from universities that participated in the AAU’s joint study of sexual assault this year. All schools are AAU members, except Dartmouth College. This file will be updated.

(For comparison, here are some overall figures: The survey found that 23 percent of undergraduate women and 5 percent of undergraduate men said they were victims of non-consensual sexual contact – ranging from penetration to sexual touching — due to force or incapacitation. Eleven percent of undergraduate women said they were victims of non-consensual penetration.

Another key overall finding: 20 percent of students said sexual assault and misconduct is very or extremely problematic on their own campus. The AAU survey had a total response rate of 19 percent.)

Nonconsensual Sexual Contact by Physical Force, Threats of Physical Force or
Incapacitation. Students were asked about nonconsensual sexual contact that was the result of
physical force, threats of physical force or incapacitation. This combination of tactics and behaviors
generally meets legal definitions of rape (penetration) and sexual battery (sexual touching). The
definitions provided to the respondent for the behaviors included (see items G1 through G5 on the
survey):
 Penetration:
– when one person puts a penis, finger, or object inside someone else’s vagina or
anus
– when someone’s mouth or tongue makes contact with someone else’s genitals
 Sexual Touching:
– kissing
– touching someone’s breast, chest, crotch, groin, or buttocks
– grabbing, groping or rubbing against the other in a sexual way, even if the
touching is over the other’s clothes

More than 50 percent of the victims of even the most serious incidents (e.g., forced
penetration) say they do not report the event because they do not consider it “serious
enough.”

The question on absence of affirmative consent (AAC) was introduced with the following definition
(see questionnaire items G8 and G9):
Since you have been a student at [University], has someone had contact with you
involving penetration or oral sex without your active, ongoing voluntary agreement? Examples
include someone:
 initiating sexual activity despite your refusal
 ignoring your cues to stop or slow down
 went ahead without checking in or while you were still deciding
 otherwise failed to obtain your consent
Females and those identifying as TGQN were the most likely to be victimized by this type of tactic.
For example since enrolling at the IHE, 11.4 percent of undergraduate females and 14.8 percent of
undergraduates who identify as TGQN were victimized by this tactic compared to 2.4 percent of
males.

More than 1 in 5 female undergrads at top schools suffer sexual attacks, survey finds

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After reading this nonsense my first reaction is that there must be a hell of a high percent of female students who have serous problems with drugs and or alcohol to get so out of it that they can no longer consent to sex.

but from what I saw I think something else is going on in these numbers as well. It looks to me that forcible penetration is being called sexual assault when a guy a girl are making out and the guy is on top, foreplay with the intent to have sex, but because the sex was never talked about and verbally agreed to it is called forcible penetration without consent. AKA rape.

Hawkeye if you read the comments after the story in the Washington Post you will find people tearing the survey apart in some details