Men Should be Included in the Protection of the Crime of Rape

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.489How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“sexual rights”; “sexual assault”; “equal protection”

Abstract

In today’s society, there are numerous cases of men being forcibly assaulted, and the imperfect provisions of China’s current criminal law on the crime of rape have resulted in men being raped and the perpetrators being punished only for “intentional assault” or “indecent assault”. For the victim, this means that the criminal law does not fully and reasonably protect his legal interests. The current criminal law on rape makes the crime of rape theoretically inadequate, but also poses a dilemma for judicial practice. In theory, the neglect of the protection of men’s sexual rights is contrary to the principle of gender equality. In practice, the offence can only be punished by other crimes. In other countries, the legislation on rape has evolved in such a way that the protection of rape has been extended from “women” to “others”. It is also important that our legislation be amended to provide equal protection of the sexual rights of our citizens.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuxin Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Men Should be Included in the Protection of the Crime of Rape
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2698
EP  - 2702
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.489
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.489
ID  - Wang2022
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