ANNOUNCING... The Rape Awareness and Prevention Guide Chosen by Over 200,000 individual purchasers,
700 Colleges and Universities, and Many Police Departments and Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Programs...
Because It's THAT Important!
AVOIDING RAPE
ON AND OFF CAMPUS
Special Individual Volume Purchase Offer
For 2005 - 2006
AVOIDING RAPE ON AND OFF CAMPUS is one of the most thorough, highly researched, well thought-out, and
refreshing Awareness, Avoidance and Prevention guidebooks on this issue to come along in many years.
It's a first-rate
presentation offering valuable guidance to the student seeking to live responsibly and it suggests ways to effectively confront
and prevent rape and sexual harassment on the campuses of American colleges and universities.
It's also the ideal
awareness, avoidance, intervention, prevention and survival manual for any At-Risk Male or Female as well as the gender-challenged
in America or the free world today, and virtually anywhere that sexual victimization can become a grim reality.
It's
highly readable and highly recommended.
AVOIDING RAPE ON AND OFF CAMPUS... ...is completely rewritten
to help both men and women to avoid rape while also encouraging the personal assertiveness needed to be equal and competitive;
*Includes a vital chapter on Sexual Harassment; *Includes a much-needed chapter on Date and Acquaintance Rape;
*Includes important information addressing Coercive Sex and Group/Party Rape; *Include the most in-depth research
on Rape and Rape Prevention.
LOOK At What This Hard-Hitting, Informative Rape Awareness and Prevention Guide Contains:
*A REALISTIC VIEW OF RAPE
The seriousness of rape on campus; Practicing rape prevention strategies;
Dealing with sexist behavior; Common myths about rape.
*DATE AND ACQUAINTANCE RAPE
Case studies
about date and acquaintance rape; When and how date rapes take place;
Characteristics of date and acquaintance rapists
YOU need to know; Discussion of male and female roles; Communicating your feelings.
*COERCIVE SEX AND GROUP/PARTY
RAPE
Coercion; Promises, threats and lies; When To Say "NO!"; Fraternity Gang Rape case study; Characteristics
of group/party rapes.
*AVOIDING RAPE AT HOME, IN YOUR RESIDENCE AND AT PARTIES
Awareness and
assertiveness - your first lines of defense; Recommendations to keep you safe while maintaining your personal freedoms and
your ability to compete and succeed.
*AVOIDING RAPE WHEN WALKING, RIDING AND USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Common-sense
recommendations for avoiding rape while walking on campus, using public transportation and driving.
*FLIGHT,
FIGHT OR SUBMIT?
1. Four primary considerations; 2. Possible responses to a rapist's attack; 3.
How to fight effectively; 4. Submission DOES NOT Mean Consent!
*VICTIM SUPPORT
Rape
trauma syndrome; What to do immediately after a rape; Assisting a rape victim; Recovery and Survival from Rape; Reporting
and Prosecuting rape.
*SEXUAL HARASSMENT
This is a serious problem on the college and university
campus and in the company-based, non-profit, agency and corporate workplace - and not merely an isolated incident; Types of
sexual harassment; Common myths about sexual harassment; Dealing with sexual harassment; Student-Professor relationships.
WE MUST CONFRONT sexist behavior at all points on the continuum from sexist jokes and Sexual Harassment,
to Rape and Spousal Abuse.
Only in this way can we hope to change society's attitudes toward rape.
Unfortunately, rape does exist in our
society. But we must recognize that some of these strategies may be limiting. Thus, while acting prudently to avoid rape,
it is especially important for male and female students and others, whether on the college or university campus, or on the
streets of any city in our nation or world, to always remain assertive and insist on the elimination of all sexist behavior
on campus, in the workplace and everywhere!
AVOIDING RAPE ON AND OFF CAMPUS... is a multipurpose
guide perfect for:
*Every incoming college and university student's orientation materials; *Dormitory meetings on
rape prevention and sexual harassment intervention;
*Training residence and dormitory advisors, as well as campus
police and security personnel. *Communicating information about the seriousness of rape to fraternities; *Counseling
victims of rape and sexual harassment; *College and university campus rape prevention programs; *Classes in self-defense,
women's studies, criminal justice and human sexuality; *Training professional staff and counselors; *Rape awareness
and victim support programs offered by rape crisis centers; *Affirmative Action sexual harassment programs; *Preparing
high school students for college; and more.
EVERY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY POLICE OR SECURITY DEPARTMENT SHOULD
HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES IN ITS LIBRARIES AND AT LEAST ONE COPY OF THIS GUIDEBOOK AVAILABLE TO EACH POLICE AND SECURITY OFFICER!
HERE'S WHAT'S BEEN SAID ABOUT... AVOIDING RAPE ON AND OFF CAMPUS:
“It's an excellent book
to give to each and every college man and woman before or when they arrive on campus. It's informative in defining rape and
its affects on student life. It provides the needed preventive measures and information on victim support.”
“It
is a straightforward, comprehensive treatment of a topic that is all too often given minimal attention on many college campuses.
It deals sensibly and sensitively with both awareness and prevention of rape as well as the essential support necessary for
victims of rape. I recommend it highly for both male and female students and all staff."
Avoiding Rape On and Off
Campus spells out the meaning of 'being careful' in clear language, becoming one of the most indispensable publications in
a college man's or woman's possession or personal library. It should be deemed required reading for all men and women who
want to protect themselves and avoid rape.
MALE RAPE IS NO MYTH!
One victim got drunk and got
a lift home from a guy in a bar. Another victim was forcefully abducted off the street and taken into an apartment by three
men. Both incidents ended the same way – RAPE! -- but with a difference: Both victims were men! Contrary to popular
belief -- that men are too big or too strong to be sexually assaulted -- male rape really happens, and not just to men in
the county jail, the state or federal prison or while in the municipal lockup facility awaiting arraignment, bail hearing
or before being released on their own recognizance. Society doesn’t want to believe that it happens to anybody,
let alone men, who are supposed to be powerful and able to protect themselves, but it does happen! Pinpointing the prevalence
of male rape is difficult.
The Justice Department estimates that 1 out of every 1,000 men -- about 9,400 in all --
are victims of rape or attempted rape. Private surveys report that from 12 to 16 percent of male college students have been
forced into sexual intercourse by dating partners. In both cases, however, figures are based on small sample sizes. Like
many female rape victims, men too are reluctant to alert police authorities, health officials, or even family and friends.
By acknowledging rape, a man is "admitting that he was weak and powerless -- "a seeming taboo in a society in which men are
expected to defend themselves.”
Moreover, male rape can be "so humiliating, it makes victims question their
own sexual identity. "If the victim is homosexual, he may believe he has no credibility, As counselors and psychiatrists see
it, all male rape victims suffer the doubts of others. One would sincerely hope that significant others and family would back
them up and offer support, but, in most cases, the victims are blamed and, sadly, will often hear, "You must have wanted it
in some way."
Attitudes toward male rape today "are the same as they were for women 20 years ago."
The
criminal justice system is rapidly catching up. The trial system, which requires accusers to confront their alleged assailants,
"makes it very uncomfortable for victims", but the process is often misunderstood. There are no presumptions on the part of
the system as to what a victim is, or looks like, or even how a victim should react. For instance, the law doesn't even require
the victims to resist!
Male rape victims are commonly confused about where to turn because "rape crisis centers have traditionally been
a place for women."
Male rape victims have been: --Students abused by teachers; --Fraternity pledges sexually assaulted during fraternity
initiations; --Traveling salesmen whose motel rooms were broken into resulting in sexual assault; and more.
All these victims, and countless others, fell prey to the same tactics used against women. They were either too drunk
to resist, were intimidated, or were seduced by people they trusted, such as physicians, priests, or teachers. Nearly all
of them refused to visit rape centers for counseling. Instead, they've suffered serious injuries or fear getting AIDS.
Counselors hope that more male rape victims will be willing to talk about sexual assault, partly because female rape
and child abuse are now being discussed more openly. Once that happens, more attackers will be prosecuted.
There are positive signs. Although rape severely traumatizes men, surveys show that the prognosis for recovery is
good. Research has shown that men really do feel better about themselves when they come to terms with what happened. Even
though the process may be very difficult, they want their assailants to be held accountable.
Still, all involved agree that conditions won't improve unless society recognizes that male rape occurs, and understands
how.
Victims have said they wouldn't have reported it in the first place if they'd known how they would be treated.
Can you blame them?
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