Rape, rape, rape; one has only been hearing off this term and nothing more for the last one month and more ever since a group of six deranged individuals accosted and brutally raped the 23 year old brave heart Nirbhaya who succumbed to her grievous injuries after a valiant 13 day long struggle for life.........
The term "rape" was originally conjured up by the Romans and means nothing more than carrying away and forcing oneself upon a woman against her will; women were regarded as the property of the menfolk at the time and any assault on them was perceived to be an assault on the prestige and social standing of her owner or mentor and this nocturnal tendency of looking upon women as nothing more than the personal goods and chattel of the man who has acquired her sadly continues till this very day in some quarters..........
Chemical castration, permanent castration, bobbitisation, hanging and so and so forth are being widely touted as the panacea or long term solution to this perennial problem, but I am indeed sorry to say that we again seem to be missing the woods for the trees like we almost always do and searching for solutions for the problem without addressing it's very root cause........
Incest, marital rape, domestic violence and physical and mental harassment of women who do not accede to the sexual demands of their so called lords and masters are areas that need to be addressed first and foremost as these are grey areas under the existing laws pertaining to the heinous crime of rape and far from satisfactorily addressed under the existing sections of the Indian penal code........
The problem of domestic violence and marital rape is indeed far more serious than was being originally thought, a recent survey carried out in a weekly English magazine of national repute threw up the startling and rather disturbing fact that 84% of Indian women felt that a reasonable amount of physical violence was acceptable as long as their menfolk remained faithful to them and stuck by their side through the trials and tribulations of married life..........
Another startling fact thrown up by the very same survey was the fact that INCEST is indeed India's most darkest, gruesome and well kept secret, Fathers, Uncles, Brothers, Cousins and Neighbours are more often than not the perpetrators of such barbaric crimes on their unsuspecting and gullible daughters, sisters and nieces and in most cases the perpetrators are well aware of the loopholes within the existing laws by not ejaculating within the vaginas of their hapless victims or then being suitably gentle and considerate during intercourse so that the victim is not bruised, battered and physically wrecked as desired by the so called guardians of the law..........
So archaic, out of date and lopsided are our methods and ways of means of establishing this heinous crime that we still continue to persist with the inhuman two finger test that the rest of the civilised world gave up more than twenty years ago; a victims version of events is only given credence and taken seriously when she is bruised, battered and resembles someone who was run over by a speeding truck, sex workers who come forward to register such cases are openly ridiculed and in turn accused of conjuring up flights of fancy in order to entrap men who failed to pay them for their services.........
Here's an example of the kind of questions that are asked of the victim by the defence counsel, was the penetration partial or complete, for how long did the sexual intercourse last, was the perpetrator brutal or gentle in his behaviour towards you, where all did the perpetrator touch or feel you during the commission of the heinous act, were you disrobed with brutal force or then were your vestments removed one by one and so and so forth.........
We need to address such burning issues and sexist mindsets before seeking knee jerk solutions to this age old problem, castration and so on and so forth can at best curb this problem and put it on the back burner for so long, but the right kind of inculcation of values, education, upbringing and initiation into sexual practices will slowly but surely help in the eradication of this problem from it's very root, so let's all kindly pay attention to the eradication of these sexist and deplorable mindsets and social mores and save solutions like castration and such others for tomorrow.............
The term "rape" was originally conjured up by the Romans and means nothing more than carrying away and forcing oneself upon a woman against her will; women were regarded as the property of the menfolk at the time and any assault on them was perceived to be an assault on the prestige and social standing of her owner or mentor and this nocturnal tendency of looking upon women as nothing more than the personal goods and chattel of the man who has acquired her sadly continues till this very day in some quarters..........
Chemical castration, permanent castration, bobbitisation, hanging and so and so forth are being widely touted as the panacea or long term solution to this perennial problem, but I am indeed sorry to say that we again seem to be missing the woods for the trees like we almost always do and searching for solutions for the problem without addressing it's very root cause........
Incest, marital rape, domestic violence and physical and mental harassment of women who do not accede to the sexual demands of their so called lords and masters are areas that need to be addressed first and foremost as these are grey areas under the existing laws pertaining to the heinous crime of rape and far from satisfactorily addressed under the existing sections of the Indian penal code........
The problem of domestic violence and marital rape is indeed far more serious than was being originally thought, a recent survey carried out in a weekly English magazine of national repute threw up the startling and rather disturbing fact that 84% of Indian women felt that a reasonable amount of physical violence was acceptable as long as their menfolk remained faithful to them and stuck by their side through the trials and tribulations of married life..........
Another startling fact thrown up by the very same survey was the fact that INCEST is indeed India's most darkest, gruesome and well kept secret, Fathers, Uncles, Brothers, Cousins and Neighbours are more often than not the perpetrators of such barbaric crimes on their unsuspecting and gullible daughters, sisters and nieces and in most cases the perpetrators are well aware of the loopholes within the existing laws by not ejaculating within the vaginas of their hapless victims or then being suitably gentle and considerate during intercourse so that the victim is not bruised, battered and physically wrecked as desired by the so called guardians of the law..........
So archaic, out of date and lopsided are our methods and ways of means of establishing this heinous crime that we still continue to persist with the inhuman two finger test that the rest of the civilised world gave up more than twenty years ago; a victims version of events is only given credence and taken seriously when she is bruised, battered and resembles someone who was run over by a speeding truck, sex workers who come forward to register such cases are openly ridiculed and in turn accused of conjuring up flights of fancy in order to entrap men who failed to pay them for their services.........
Here's an example of the kind of questions that are asked of the victim by the defence counsel, was the penetration partial or complete, for how long did the sexual intercourse last, was the perpetrator brutal or gentle in his behaviour towards you, where all did the perpetrator touch or feel you during the commission of the heinous act, were you disrobed with brutal force or then were your vestments removed one by one and so and so forth.........
We need to address such burning issues and sexist mindsets before seeking knee jerk solutions to this age old problem, castration and so on and so forth can at best curb this problem and put it on the back burner for so long, but the right kind of inculcation of values, education, upbringing and initiation into sexual practices will slowly but surely help in the eradication of this problem from it's very root, so let's all kindly pay attention to the eradication of these sexist and deplorable mindsets and social mores and save solutions like castration and such others for tomorrow.............
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