Definitions of Types of Rape

Rape:The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.

Statutory rape: sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of consent, which age varies in different states.

Acquaintance rape: rape perpetrated by someone known to the victim.

Group rape: (also known as gang rape) occurs when a group of people participate in the rape of a single victim

Sexual assault: Conduct of a sexual or indecent nature toward another person that is accompanied by actual or threatened physical force or that induces fear, shame, or mental suffering.

Sexual abuse: Sexual activity that is deemed improper or harmful, as between an adult and a minor or with a person of diminished mental capacity.

Incest: The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.

Stranger rape: A rape in which the victim does not know the rapist.

Date rape: forcible sexual intercourse by an acquaintance of the victim, during a voluntary social engagement in which the victim did not intend to submit to the sexual advances and resisted the acts by verbal refusals, denials or pleas to stop, and/or physical resistance.

Drug-facilitated rape: When drugs or alcohol are used to compromise an individual's ability to consent to sexual activity. In addition, drugs and alcohol are often used in order to minimize the resistance and memory of the victim of a sexual assault.

College campus rape: rape that occurs on a college campus

Prison rape: persons who are convicted offenders and raped during their incarceration.

Rape as a means of warfare: raping enemy soldiers so as to humiliate them and undermine their morale as giving them signal of being unable to protect what is valuable to them.