The history of sex violence exists since time immemorial, and
not always deemed as illegality. Women in history are always viewed as a being
subjugated to the man's will and laws. Therefore, it's against them most of the
sexual violence of contemporary and historic registries.
The nature of the violence may vary from insults, physic
aggressions to menaces, but what worries most, nowadays, is the worse kind of
aggression: rape. This kind of aggression causes a great deal of physical harm
to the victim, but, certainly, the biggest one being the psychological as matter
of course.
Most cases of sexual violence occur inside the victim's own
abode, regardless of how close the offender and the victim might be. It renders
difficult the intervention of law, since menaces become constant. The feeling of
being attacked, is so, replaced by scare feelings, and nothing happens to the
offender as to be punished as deserved.
Fear is not the only factor that helps the aggressor to get
away with it. Women (most of the victims) may feel rather ashamed of what took
place, and prefer, so, to forget the mishap leaving it up to the police's
procedure to clear the facts. But it is not their fault at all. The pressure of
peers, neighbors and next of kin, poises the victim not to go
trough-embarrassing situations again.
Even though it isn't a significative number, there is, too,
sexual violence of women against men, and it happens, most of the time, at work
environment. Just like women, the feeling of shame and labeling of society
poises men not to seek the law for support.
Today, many support centers spread in the world and ONG'S help
women to tackle such situations, giving them psychological and physical support
, so that can aggressors be identified and judged by the law.
When a victim arrives in a support center, doctors and
psychologists who will run batteries of exams and questions then support her.
Date, time and localization of the occurrence are points of reference to solve
cases, as are gynecological exam and a full blood work up of the essence. If
known who the aggressor is, he/she undergoes thorough medical exams in order to
detect any disease that might've been transmitted to the victim. It's imperative
in cases of sexual violence cases to dash for the nearest support center and not
omit any detail and press charges with no mercy on whoever committed such
atrocity.
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