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>ur 4, “They are looking for some-
c * ce i, lie to dominate,” he said. “In
‘d fue^at ^ense, sex is not very impor-
P tnt as a motive.”
’’d launc “Rape is aggression expressed
le test, xually,” he said.“It is not sex
•.pressed aggressively. They’re
°ga rodterdominance, not sex.”
teofSjiv The offender who rapes be-
oiuse he wants to dominate
utnped "obably has had a conflict with
r intospie or more of his parents dur-
anddrcghis youth, is angry, confused
ng Jid has psychological problems,
my grouch said.
the end These offenders may assault
ie victim several times over a
;riod of three or four hours, or
d aid, the victim captive over a
edcend, Crouch said. The
lance that the rapist and victim
e acquainted is slight, he said,
id the degree of force is likely
matched > be great.
. All hough many rapes are not
,—1,1/■nrted. Crouch said the num-
( ,,;|‘" Jris increasing. He attributed
iii trend to a changed attitude
in sex roles.
“The general independence
of women has led the women to
feel they do have rights and if
they are violated, then they
ought not to suffer in silence,”
he said. Rape counseling is
easier now, he said, because the
woman doesn’t have to feel
tainted in the eyes of society.
Although she never had
counseling, Liz recommends it.
“There’s no use for anybody
to carry around that load of guilt
and feel like a ‘bad girl’,” she
said.
Hope said women who re
ceive counseling will recover
from the ordeal easier.
“It’s an incredibly traumatic
experience,” Hope said. “And
somebody who is trained in
helping them through that kind
of trauma can certainly help.”
Methods of counseling are ta
ilored to a woman’s needs and
lasts only as long as a victim
needs it, she said.
“Some women just need sup-
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port and a person to listen,”
Hope said. “Some women need
help in structuring their lives
again, and some women may
need something else.”
“We try to let them know
psychologically what’s happen
ing to them,” she said, “and to let
them know they’re going to have
some reactions which intellec
tually may seem very unneces
sary to them.”
A common reaction of victims
is a feeling of paranoia about
their safety and that women are
easily startled for a period of
time after the rape, she said.
“Some women are basically in
a state of shock —just ’numbed-
out’ to everything,” she said.
“Some women, on the other
hand, are able to talk about their
anxiety freely.”
The primary feeling is being
overwhelmed by everything at
once — fear, guilt and shame,
she said.
“They feel very frightened,
and legitimately so,” Hope said.
“They’ve had to come face to
face with the fact that this is not
something which happens to
somebody else. There is a true
loss of an easy sense of security.
For some women it never comes
back and for some it does.”
Counselors also will meet with
a victim’s family, boyfriend, hus
band or friends and explain to
them what the woman is going
through, Hope said.
The Personal Counseling
Service in the YMCA Building
counsels the victim’s family in 25
percent of the cases, she said.
Liz said her husband was
sympathetic when she told him
about the rape. He was the first
person she told after keeping it a
secret for 13 years.
The Personal Counseling
Service is designed for Universi
ty students. Non-students who
call the service are referred to
such community agencies as the
Mental Health-Mental Retarda
tion center, private practitioners
in the mental health fields and
educational psychology services
on campus.
Ruffino currently is complet
ing plans for a rape crisis center.
She d I think they will come
through and accept the counsel
ing knowing that the end result
is that they don’t have to go to
court if they don’t want to,” she
said. “Giving her that option will
take a great burden and press
ure off her.”
Hope said it is important for
the woman to have medical as
well as psychological interven
tion because of the possibility of
C regnancy, venereal desease,
ruises and broken bones. This
care is available on campus
through the Beutel Health Cen
ter or at any local hospital, she
said.
Because of the way rape is
viewed by the legal system.
broken bones and bruises
rather than psychological dam
age — are too often what classi
fies a rape as brutal, she said.
“You almost get the impress
ion that the best rape victim tes
timony comes from a dead vic
tim,” she said. “She’s somehow
got a cleaner case because she
has more cuts and bruises or
black eyes.”
But, “Every rape is pretty
brutal,” Hope said.
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