User:Gfrench55clu/sandbox

My topic is prison sexuality and I plan on contributing my time to merging the prison rape wikipedia page into the prison sexuality page. Prison rape is comparable to rape culture in our society. What circumstances cause it to happen? What's to gain? I have read several articles and see that many articles think convicts mirror the outside world and even rape culture has made it's way into prison life. For men and women the culture is somewhat different, for men and women, it is more power based action when abusing another inmate while on the women's side, they are also in danger of rape by guards. Another part that I see developing is that I would like to contribute to the relationships with guards and others outside the prison section. contributing information about their relationships more deeply because they are currently lacking.

1) http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.callutheran.edu/stable/3032988?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prison&searchText=sexuality&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%26acc%3Don%26prq%3Drole%2Bof%2Bchaos%2Bin%2Bprimordial%2Bmyths%2Breligion%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don%26so%3Drel%26fc%3Doff&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Ladies behind bars

2) http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.callutheran.edu/stable/3812269?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prison&searchText=sexuality&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fso%3Drel%26acc%3Don%26Query%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%26fc%3Doff%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26prq%3Drole%2Bof%2Bchaos%2Bin%2Bprimordial%2Bmyths%2Breligion%26wc%3Don%26hp%3D25&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Prison Sexology: Two Personal Accounts of Masturbation, Homosexuality, and Rape (The Journal of Sex Research)

3)http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.callutheran.edu/stable/24589862?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prison&searchText=sexuality&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Famp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26acc%3Don%26hp%3D25%26so%3Drel%26Query%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%26prq%3Drole%2Bof%2Bchaos%2Bin%2Bprimordial%2Bmyths%2Breligion%26fc%3Doff%26wc%3Don&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Brutality and Brotherhood: James Baldwin and Prison Sexuality (African American Review)

4)http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.callutheran.edu/stable/41345384?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prison&searchText=sexuality&searchText=rape&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Famp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26hp%3D25%26so%3Drel%26fc%3Doff%26Query%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%2Brape%26wc%3Don%26prq%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%26acc%3Don&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Real Rape Too (California Law Review)

5) http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.callutheran.edu/stable/10.1086/670812?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prison&searchText=sexuality&searchText=rape&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fhp%3D25%26Query%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%2Brape%26fc%3Doff%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26wc%3Don%26prq%3Dprison%2Bsexuality%26acc%3Don%26so%3Drel Sexual Necropolitics and Prison Rape Elimination (Signs)

Prison Rape (Draft)

Prison is a community sexologically characterized by overt masturbation and by homosexual couplings that may be either consensual, coercive or assaultive (rape). Prison rape, like rape on it's own, is defined differently from state to state but is understood to be non consensual or unwanted sexual contact between individuals. Prison rape can be between inmates or inmates and staff of the prison. This is a form of sexuality because these individuals use their capacity for sexual feelings to intimidate or control their victims which causes sociological properties of the prison to change.

Prisoners have two overarching reasons to rape a victim, one is to satisfy their overt sexual and need based desires that self pleasure can not. The second is to use the assault as a sort of intimidation factor to grant the rapist power in a place where these actions generally go unpunished. In prison, the phrase "a**-hole bandit" is used to describe such an inmate that would rape another (in the male case). There seems to be no shown correlation that men who are abusive to their partners outside of prison are more likely to be rapist in prisons. Such men are not known to have history of sexual assault before prison.

In 2003, for the first time ever, the United States government moved to protect prisoners from sexual violence. With pressure for human rights groups, the US house of representatives and senate unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) to protect prisoners from sexual violence.

Multiple types of forced sexual contact happen in prison. A few are listed. "Kids" are kept in servitude by an owner and are a sign of the owners prestige and power. "Gumps" are a used as prostitutes by a gang or group of inmates who sell the gumps sexual favors for money and prison currency. Gumps tend to be in their position because they volunteered for it at one time for purposes of coming into their sexual orientation in prison or for survival in the incarceration system. Punks are individuals who hesitate to participate in homosexual behavior, but are turned over by coercion.