chapter 4 "asleep"

Most people are asleep to the fact that delinquents are prayed upon by older men and adolescent there age. Moreover the are asleep to the fact that these young ones have something to do with why they are sexually abused sometime. It says "adolescent girls and young women have the highest rates of victimization." You have to ask yourself important questions when touching this subject, does she talk to the older guy as a friend and implied a sexual invitation, or does she where cloths to fit the part and where does she go, is it to a place where the rape rate is high etc. Some of the things you have to ask before you go playing the blame game. In no way am i coding the demoralizing fashion of rape on our urban women,but i am saying other things done by the victim constructs if they are targeted or not. They say the adolescents rape rate is high but why? Is it because of there vastly developing bodies,or is it because they embrace these new attributes and show them off for attention they never got earlier in life. So you tell me why as a girl walks down a street why is she whistle at and call vulgar names. My other point i will make is it goes pass the victims and the beginning of this situation sometime starts at home. Family problems also play apart in what happens to that females future.The coercion when ask "Have you every been sexually abused by someone in your family?', was 5 (14%) out of 35. That was a small percentile but it shows that the offender does not have everything to with the situation. That then brings the question what is the rest of the percent, are the girls letting it happen?or are they just to scare to do anything about it. For example in the text "Alica was first pressured at the age of 14 into unwanted sex by her boyfriend, later the same young man raped her and also arranged for his friends to run a train on her at her house. So why couldn't she fight this off maybe it was because she was used of it as the text further describes. "Felicia was sexually abused by a family friend when she was 6 and he was 16. So by this happening it sort of created a bad comfort zone the she became accustom to. ace40