Talk:History of rape

Gender neutral
The history of the concept has not been gender-neutral, and whoever editted these paragraphs to make them gender-neutral introduced many false statements. I am removing them. Goldfritha 23:34, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I know its un-PC to mention, but while the Koran and classical jurists might have found no fault with the victims of rape, this is definitely not the case today where victims are just as likely to be flogged as the perpetrators.

Rape in Roman games
I read a magazine article that included the rape of children and female, sometimes by trained beasts, as one of the shows in the Roman amphitheatres. I am not finding much about that in Wikipedia, only:
 * Martial also suggests the rape of a woman by a bull in a re-creation of the myth of Pasiphaë.[34] Nero had provided a similar entertainment at an event he had staged using an actor dressed in the costume of a bull,[1] though Martial claims that the act performed at the inaugural games was authentic

in Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre. Was it a frequent show? Were the victims slaves? Convicts? --Error (talk) 23:36, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


 * The Roman amphitheatre: from its origins to the Colosseum by Katherine E. Welch repeats the Martial and Nero references. --Error (talk) 00:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Neutrality
This seems to be biased towards Christianity. Sexuality in ancient Rome comes to the exact opposite conclusion and is well sourced and cited. This article makes it seem like the Romans were barbarians, whereas in reality they had a well defined legal system that punished rape. It should be brought in line with the better written article noted before. 79.249.150.132 (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm just coming upon this article for the first time. Will address this at once, at least from the perspective of ancient Rome—I'm less equipped to deal with the changes to Roman law under the Christian Empire in late antiquity and into the Middle Ages. Cynwolfe (talk) 21:49, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Now it's biased against Christianity. It makes the Christians seem like monsters when in reality the Church fathers stressed that the victim of rape was free of sin, and even went so far as to say that a virgin who is raped is still a virgin. Also, Constantine was not a theologan or philosopher. He was a conqueror who jumped ship just because he happened to win one battle. This section needs neutrality and to be expanded upon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.60.23.145 (talk) 03:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Persian rape?
Where is the information that the Persians of any dynasty actively participated in rape especially since rape in the empire was extremely taboo and the rapist would be executed if not outright on the spot by boat for it.--98.149.174.254 (talk) 03:39, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

what about the spanish colonization of the americas
the conquisatdors were notorious for raping women. for example cortez raped la malinche and isabel de moctezuma. there are countless examples — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crossovershipper (talk • contribs) 03:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Judaism/The Torah
Judaism/the Torah and the instances of rape that occur there (Dina in Genesis; other forms of rape in the Prophets, such as at the end of the book of Judges) have for some reason been left off of this page, and someone with the proper knowledge should include this information.

The same goes for Arabian harems and Japanese geisha's etc.

Bride kidnapping, Southern Europe
From where it comes the information that bride kidnapping is practiced in Southern Europe? It is true that in some rural communities in Sicily still during the beginning of the 70ies of XXc. a raped woman was obliged to marry the rapist, but those times are long gone.Not only the information about abducting brides in Southern Europe in unsourced, is also anachronistic.Bialosz (talk) 08:29, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

This article is heavily biased towards a western worldview
The article only discusses the Roman Empire, some Islamic cultures, and radical feminists. There is no discussion on the history of rape in Asia, Africa, or the rest of Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:6A0:3AA:AD9A:4713:5878:2299 (talk) 00:36, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

World first raper
In male 2400:1A00:B1C0:E31D:B941:4CFA:D036:FFC4 (talk) 15:58, 19 June 2022 (UTC)