Military Sexual Assault

Sexual Assaults in the Military According to our Department of Defense in May 2016 there were 6,083 reports of sexual assault in the military. The numbers reported in 2014 were 6,131, which is a slight decrease from more current statistics. Those who are serving in the armed forces specifically women are falling victim to sexual assault. Being sexually assaulted can cause post-traumatic stress disorder all on its own without the factor of physically being in combat. This is my first concern that identified in the articles that I read. The second concern that arose during my reading was when the victim of sexual assault wants to take action against their assailant. CNN Politics published a study on sexual assault in the military. Some of

While the film was a little outdated, I know that this issue can still play a factor into the reporting of sexual assaults in the military. The young woman, had been sexually assaulted by one of her male superiors. She went to the human resources department to file a complaint. The human resources department worker was also female. When the young woman told her account of the assault the worker said to her, “OK, thank you for telling me. We are going to pretend that this never happened and you are not to speak to anyone else about this.” The worker said this in a clearly threatening tone. If those who are being victimized by sexual assault are also being discouraged from reporting it how do we move forward from this and preventing it from happening again in the

It took on the act of sexually penetrating their victim as a power role. Not necessarily that the assailant chose their target and in hopes of relieving whatever sexual urges they may be feeling at that point and time. Rather, the assailant is feeling a lack of control and is desperately searching to get that power back no matter what the consequences may be. I almost think of this of more of a Freudian approach. Quite frankly, I am unsure of what to think of the approach presented in the video clip showed in my Crisis Intervention class over PTSD in military women. Moving on to the second article, a different form of sexual assault was explored. Exploiting young military women by publishing their nude photos on the Internet. The website in question that contained the pornography was Annon-IB; where nude photos were published without consent of the person in the photo such as, Jennifer Lawrence not just of women who were serving our country to help make it possible for us to sleep soundly at