ABSTRACT

As Farrow further explains 'Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies "target," or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories.' The not-so astonishing conclusion is that sexual predation is not just concentrated in politics, movies and media but occurs everywhere in the US and exhibits similar characteristics that involve various forms of sexual assault, mostly involving powerful men against the will and consent of younger women. Sexual violence and rape have been and still are tools of colonization and war; and in the West rape has changed from being considered a crime of sex to a crime of violence. Both Hebrew and Babylonian societies and other early legal codes saw rape as fundamentally a crime of property rather than an offense against the victim. They rape because they are products of a 'rape culture' consisting of patriarchal laws, practices and ideology.