Forms of intimate violence
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. The most common forms of intimate violence are rape, attempted rape, or some form of sexual assault. Such assaults may occur both within marriage and outside of it (McCaghy, et al. 207). Additional relationship violence may occur as a threat of family violence; "normal" violence, wherein the parties agree that the victim "asked for it"; secondary violence, or concern over violence against a third party such as a child; protective violence, whereby a victim of violence (an abused wife) attacks the attacker (an abusive husband); volcanic violence, which "provides a tension release from outside pressures; alcohol-relate violence, and sexual violence, as previously noted (206-7).Females are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence, although protective-violence cases seem to place women in the position of perpetrator (206). According to the 2000 NVAW survey, only 20% of intimate rapes, 25% of all physical assaults, and 50% of stalkings perpetrated against females get reported, and the numbers go down when males are victims. Those targeted as victims respondents by intimates were reported to the police. Even fewer rapes, physical assaults, and stalkings perpetrated against male respondents by intimates were reported. The majority of victims who did not report their victimization to the police thought the police would not or could not do anything on their behalf. These findings suggest that most victims of intimate partner violence do not consider the justice syst
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xuality. That is a subject that is loaded with controversy even if child sex is never mentioned. However, bringing children into the discourse completely complicates it. Thus it is very important to dispose of the idea that adult-child sex can be defended when the child has no ability to form a sensible judgment about the impact of sexual behavior on personality development and behavior more generally.
10. McCaghy, et al. (285) define a drug as "any substance other than food that by its chemical nature affects the structure or function of the living organism." Both legal and illegal drugs can do this. The five categories of psychoactive drugs are (287-8) narcotics (pain relief), depressants (lower nervous-system activity), stimulants (raise nervous-system activity), hallucinogens (alter the perception of reality), and cannabis, or marijuana (alters experience of time and perceptions). There are direct chemical links to behavior of people using drugs. McCaghy, et al. cite alcohol's ability to change people's social behavior and the ability of marijuana to change people's attitude toward food (287).
11. Drug tolerance "refers to the ability of the human system to adapt to and to build up resistance to the effects of some drugs" (M
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