Sexual Predation, Rape &Assault against Women; Key to Disability, Hiv/Aids, Abortion: Challenges and Effects.
- Country : United States
- Subject : Theology and Ministry
Keywords : Sexual predation, women, patriarchal culture, Rape, polygamy
Abstract
This paper explored sexual predation, Rape and Assault on women; key to Disability, HIV/AIDS & Abortion: Challenges and effects. This menace has been on the increasing side and has remained the key evil triumphing in the world today, due to the hegemonic patriarchal cultures that present men as polygamous/ superior to their wives and also subjugate women to the margin as properties to their husbands, thereby making them more vulnerable as preys to men in general and this leads to sexual predation of all kinds. Using the old testament in this analysis, it was observed from the biblical narrative of the adulterous woman brought to Jesus, that the cultural perspective of polygamous nature of men played a significant role in promoting sexism with androcentric mentality of women being stoned to death when found guilty of adultery and nothing is done to the partner (man), but Jesus’s judgmental questions and statement disrupted that patriarchal Jews culture. It is same today with African men from countries such as Kenya, where the parliament passed bill on polygamy in 2014, South Africa where polygamy is legal, Cameroun and Nigeria, particularly Northern part of Nigeria where the Islamic laws presented polygamy as legal. These instances subjugated the woman who is bound culturally to one man while men are free to marry numerous wives together with concubines and mistresses, to gender-based violence, predation, rape and other forms of sexual harassment. This paper discovered that the church as a body has condemned and preached against all these kinds of sexual harassment against women and so it recommends that the church should try and practicalize what they preach/condemn by mitigating against all forms of cultural suppression, aggression and oppression of women in general.
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