Essay On Coercion

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Consent and coercion is an ongoing voluntary and conscious agreement with your partner to engage in sexual activity. In other words, giving permission because one wants to do sexual acts. Coercion is often used where two people know each other, while one person forces someone to do something they didn’t want to do through manipulation and not taking no for an answer. Asking about 20 times until their partner gives in. In terms of threats, hearing about blackmail. One case reports that a person who was in a relationship with the same sex, who was not out with their orientation to fellow peers, used that against them to perform sexual behavior. Coercion goes hand in hand with this, purposely making their partner feel intimidated by possibly punching a wall or yelling. Doing things to rile them up and scare them. Some people will bargain down on the act to make the act less traumatic, doing it even though they did not want to go. Whether being with them in a relationship, it is still considered sexual assault. The power of coercion leaves them wondering if they allowed the assault to happen because they lessened the trauma of the act. Consent has to be …show more content…

An event where two men took 4 people as hostages and kept them in a bank for 6 days in peek of robbing them. In the realm for the days, the victims develop stockholm syndrome. They began to trust their captures and identified them, almost having sympathy and affection towards them. The capturs would feed their hostages, keeping them alive. The hostages became dependent for their survival. They confused that as love. It was reported later that one of the hostages got engaged to one of the capturs later in life. That’s where the term came from, as people were diagnosed from sexual abuse. In many cases, survivors develop stockholm syndrome. Many people are not able to get out the trance, and go to drugs. It helps to have tools that can