SEXUAL
HARASSMENT - Sexual harassment is unwanted,
deliberate or repeated sexual behavior: comments,
gestures or touching. The person hearing, seeing or
being touched does not want this attention and is
frequently uncomfortable and embarrassed. Sexually
suggestive objects, signs, magazines or pictures may
be sexual harassment, too.
Sexual harassment
can also be unlawful sex discrimination if there is a
subtle or direct threat that a sexual or social
relationship is part of your job or your educational
performance. The threat can be about any part of your
job: wages, promotions, references, working
conditions; or your educational performance: grades,
honors, course work, scholarships.
SEXUAL ABUSE
- Indicators from the child's behavior:
visible emotional distress; fear of specific persons;
regression into outgrown behavior, such as bed-wetting
or thumb sucking; complaints of abdominal pain or sore
throat; fear of going to bed or of sleeping alone;
poor concentration and short attention span,
especially at school; withdrawal from others; foreign
objects collected from the child's clothing or body;
running away; alcohol and substance abuse.
Your child may be
very upset. Your child may have disturbed sleeping
patterns such as nightmares, fear of going to bed,
fear of sleeping alone or bed- wetting, loss of
appetite, irritable nature and lose patience easily,
more temper tantrums, the wish to withdraw from usual
activities, difficulty at school such as poor
concentration, short attention span and loss of
interest in classroom activities.
When you take the
child to a doctor, hospital or clinic, you may be
given other information which might serve to
corroborate sexual abuse: a description of injuries to
the child, results of laboratory tests and
examinations for spermatozoa or seminal fluid, results
of tests for sexually transmitted diseases or
pregnancy, post-traumatic stress disorder.
What is child sexual
abuse? Since childhood sexual curiosity is normal, it
is important to understand what is meant by child
sexual abuse. The victim can be found in all social
and economic levels and in all ethnic groups.
In the broadest
sense of the term, child sexual abuse may refer to any
situation of forcible sexual activity involving a
child sixteen years old or younger: sexual contact
between a child and another person in which threats,
bribery or similar methods are used to get the child
to participate; any sexual contact between a child and
an adult; sex crimes against children such as rape,
fondling, incest, molestation, exhibitionism, sodomy,
childhood pornography and child prostitution.
Sexual abuse is
seductive behavior; indecent exposure; sexual
touching, fondling or game playing; oral, anal or
vaginal intercourse. Boys as well as girls may have
been sexually abused. Incidents may have occurred just
once or many times.
Sexually transmitted
diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes genitalis,
chlamydia trachomatis, venereal warts, trichomonas,
gardnerella and human immune deficiency virus.
SEXUAL
ASSAULT - Sexual assault (and sexual abuse)
are terms that refer to sexual contact without your
consent. Rape, incest, attempted rape and unwanted
sexual touch are often called sexual assault.
What are the facts
about sexual assault? There is no typical victim:
anyone can be a victim of sexual assault. A woman is
raped every six minutes. In a single year, over 90,000
women in the United States report a rape to law
enforcement officials. Only one out of every ten rapes
is reported. Sexual assault is not sex. Sexual assault
is a violent abuse of power. Sexual assault victims
need your support.
What are the facts
about child sexual assault? One in three females will
be sexually assaulted by age eighteen. One in six
males will be sexually assaulted by age eighteen. A
large majority of child sexual assault cases are not
reported. Ninety percent of sexually assaulted
children are assaulted by someone they know. Child
sexual assault is not sex. Child sexual assault is a
violent abuse of power. Child sexual assault victims
need your support. In the United States, a child is
sexually victimized in some way, every two minutes. It
is estimated that only one out of every ten cases is
reported; so that each year, there may be between
200,000 to 500,000 child victims of sexual abuse.
Facts: Statistics
indicate that more than one-third of all rapes take
place in the victim's home and over half of the
attackers are known to the women who become their
victims. Researchers estimate the actual number of
rapes to be approximately four times the reported
number, or one quarter of a million rapes per year.
Sixty to seventy-five percent of all rapes are planned
in advance. Eighty-five percent of all rapes are
accompanied by violence or the threat of violence.
There is no single
reaction to the experience of sexual assault, but
there are common patterns of response. The return to
trust may be a long and arduous process. The reactions
of family and friends to the rape victim have a strong
effect on her recovery from crisis. Doctors, police
and attorneys in many states have joined together to
support the victim as she moves through the system of
justice. Community rape crisis centers provide support
to the victim.
SEXUAL
VIOLENCE - Domestic violence is the
intimidation and physical abuse of one family or
household member by another. This abuse may range from
harassment to battery to murder.
Violence -
Acceptable behavior toward women? Every eighteen
seconds a woman is beaten or abused by someone she
loves. Both domestic violence and sexual assault have
a long history as acceptable behavior toward women.
Both are violent crimes and women share with the
victims of other types of violent crimes the feelings
of helplessness and loss of control which are typical
responses.
Women may be
assaulted or abused, not as individual persons, but
for what they represent. Violence toward women is most
appropriately viewed as the historical and current
expression of male dominance.
Both of these crimes
against women may be seen as a show of masculinity
motivated by power and anger with the purpose of
controlling or dominating the victim. There is no
"typical victim" of sexual assault or domestic
violence, there are only women who unwittingly become
caught in a brutal power game over which they feel
little or no control.
Domestic Violence:
The denial surrounding domestic violence is
astonishing given its long history and acceptance by
society. Researchers estimate that one and a half to
three million women are beaten each year. This means
that domestic violence occurs in one out of every four
homes. And forty percent of all the women who are
murdered annually are killed by their husbands or
boyfriends. Physical abuse is happening all the time
to all kinds of women. It cuts across economic, social
and ethnic lines. And the man who beats his partner
could be any man. He beats her not because she
provokes him or because she deserves it, but because
he can get away with it. The notion of women as
property, the idea that a man may chastise his wife to
keep her "in line" is inherent in this socially
accepted violence. The abused woman is the victim of a
violent crime, but she may have no other place to go.
The battered woman
lives in fear. If she tries to defend herself, the
violence may escalate. If she leaves, she may be
pursued and beaten even more brutally as punishment
for her flight. The abused woman is trapped in her
violent home. They are truly not responsible for their
partners' violence.
A battered woman
soon learns that any action on her part can be the
excuse for a violent episode. The battered woman may
have seen violence in her family. Afraid to leave and
afraid to stay, tied economically and emotionally to
the abuser, the battered woman may slip into despair.
LIST OF
DEMONS TO BE CAST OUT IN THE NAME OF JESUS
The following are
characteristics of sexual harassment - abuse - assault
- violence: sexual harassment, embarrassment, sexual
abuse, emotional distress, fear of specific persons,
regression, bed-wetting, thumb sucking, pain, short
attention span, withdrawal, escape, substance abuse,
nightmares, fear of going to bed, fear of sleeping
alone, irritability, temper tantrums, loss of
interest, injuries, sexually transmitted diseases,
post-traumatic stress disorder, forcible sexual
activity, sexual contact, rape, fondling, incest,
molestation, exhibitionism, sodomy, pornography,
prostitution, seductive behavior, indecent exposure,
sexual touching, game playing, oral sex, anal sex,
gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes genitalis, chalamydia
trachomatis, venereal warts, trichomonas, gardnerella,
human immune deficiency virus, tay sacks, spinal
bifida, downs syndrome, mental retardation, emotional
diseases, sexual assault, attempted rape, distrust,
sexual violence, intimidation, battery, murder,
victim, helplessness, loss of control, domination,
anger, control, domestic violence, physical abuse,
slavery, trapped, despair.
Note - The list
found in Sexual Diseases, Impurities and Demons is the
main one for deliverance from sexual sins. Other
related lists may be found in Effeminacy - Sins of
Sodom, Rape, and Deliverance for the Subconscious
Mind.
REFERENCES
- The background for this lesson was taken from
publications provided by the following organizations:
Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, Illinois
Department of Human Rights, Children's Hospital
National Medical Center, and Rape Information and
Counseling Service. Also About Adults Abused As
Children by Channing L. Bete Co., Inc. is very
helpful.