2.8.23 Rape Questions
By Brian Catanese
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8 Questions
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work with your group (4 or more) to answer the questions - this will be a graded assignment (100 points)
For each case below, assume that the two people have sexual intercourse. Assume that the police find out about the sexual activity in each instance. How should each situation be handled?
work with your group (4 or more) to answer the questions - this will be a graded assignment (100 points)
For each case below, assume that the two people have sexual intercourse. Assume that the police find out about the sexual activity in each instance. How should each situation be handled?
a. At midnight, a man breaks into the home of a woman he does not know. He goes to her bedroom, awakens her, pulls out a knife, and threatens to stab her unless she has sex with him. She tells him that she does not want to have sex. But then she says, “If you are going to do this, you’d better use a condom.” He agrees.
b. A famous boxer serves as a judge at a beauty contest. After the contest, he invites an 18-year-old contestant to his hotel room. She meets him there. Later, she says he forced her to have sex.
c. A male college student, age 19, and a female high school student, age 15, go out on a date. After attending a party, they agree to have intercourse in his car. The legal age of consent in this state is 16. The next day, he brags about this on campus, and she goes to the police. There is some evidence that he is part of an informal organization of male students who are involved in a competition to have sex with as many young women as possible.
d. Leo and Nina are college juniors who have had three dates. On these dates, they have never engaged in any sexual activity beyond a brief goodnight kiss. On their fourth date, he invites her to an all-night drinking party at his fraternity house. She drinks too much, goes up to his room alone around 1:00 A.M., and falls asleep. In the morning, she wakes up to discover that she and Leo had intercourse during the night.