Reply #43: rape not sexual assault

[Djinn]

and I understand why you're pissed at the terms used here but I'd also say 17/18 year olds aren't children - to me though that differentiation is compleetly irrelevant, a 17 year old is not neccesarily more traumatised by getting raped than a 25 year old.

As for the views on this in the Middle East I think you're genralising - Iraq was/is quite different to much of the middle east in that women can work (including int he armed services) and things likt alcohol were legal and widely accepted. In MANY countries in the Middle East (Saudi, Yemen for example) a woman would most likely be married with a couple of kids at 17 so to say that they are viewed as "children" throughout the middle east is a bit erroneous.

That said rape is rape regardless of age/gender/sexuality etc. Unfortunatly it's been seen as a weapon of war for a very long time