When was rape first recordee12/14/2023 The closest thing to an answer is the cold shoulder, the emotional reaction that one receives when the issue is mentioned. These questions are not easily answered, because in rape cases questions are easily asked but answers are much more difficult and inconvenient to answer. The issue of rape is not an abstract issue as it has unveiled its ugly mask in every society, and how do we describe the brutal nature of this shameless masquerade in Africa, especially in Nigeria? What could have triggered the increase in recent times? What could have caused perpetrators to sexually assault their victims ? The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability or is below the legal age of consent. Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person’s consent. Forms of gender-based violence, including rape, domestic violence and other sexual abuses, have assumed serious dimensions globally. The culture is defined by inequality and the subjugation of the female folk. Furthermore, there is the fact that women have always been perceived as the weaker vessel, and so have been subjugated and oppressed by culture in most African societies. Despite all these, the offence of rape in Nigeria seems to be on the increase and the question on every lip is what the cause is? Does it mean that the punishment stipulated for it in the extant laws is no longer heavy enough to deter would-be rapist or are there factors which ostensibly offer more incentives for rape than the risk of its punishment. Ĭulturally, it is an offence which stands on the same pedestal with the offence of murder since a suspect accused of rape is expected to go into hiding while his people make efforts to cleanse the shame on the face of the family of the rape victim. Indeed biblically, rape was a constant feature among men and at a point it was taken as a thing of shame not on the victim but on the family of the person raped. It is on record that the first recorded incidence of rape in the Bible was also in the Book of Genesis. Rape has a history that almost equalled the history of man’s creation. By M ICHAEL JOSEPH AND T OLUWANI B AMIGBOJE
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