corrective rape

English

Etymology

corrective + rape. First used in South Africa, in reference to the raping of lesbians.

Noun

corrective rape (countable and uncountable, plural corrective rapes)

  1. The act of raping someone because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in an attempt to force the person to be heterosexual or to enforce gender stereotypes.
    • [2011 December 5, Donna Bryson, “Rights group: South African lesbians face abuse”, in Yahoo! News‎, archived from the original on 2012-11-12:
      Raping a lesbian, HRW [(Human Rights Watch)] researchers found, can make a man a township hero. Attackers boast publicly of their crimes and declare to their victims, "We'll show you you're a woman," the report said. Such attacks are known as "corrective rapes" in South Africa.]
    • 2021, S. J. Dodd, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 99:
      In early reports of corrective rape, gender non-conforming behavior among black lesbian women is cited as one of the most prevalent motivations behind the perpetration of such violence (Mufweba and Bhengu, 2003).

Usage notes
  • A 2013 global study on HIV/AIDS suggested the term lesphobic rape be used when specifically discussing homophobia-motivated rape of lesbians, who constitute the overwhelming majority of victims of "corrective rape".[1]
  • Gay men, transgender people, asexuals, bisexuals and intersex people can also be victims of corrective rape.[2][3][4][5]
  • People accused of being acephobic have argued that asexuals should not use the term, calling it appropriation.[6]

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References
  1. Smith, Raymond A., editor (2010), Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism: Persistent Challenges and Emerging Issues: Persistent Challenges and Emerging Issues‎, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, retrieved 8 September 2018, page 49
  2. Hunter-Gault (2015), p. 5.
  3. Merrill D. Smith (2018), p. 178.
  4. Denton, Michelle (2017) Rape Culture: How Can We End It?‎, New York: Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, retrieved 8 September 2018, page 31
  5. “IACHR: Forms and contexts of violence against LGBTI persons in the Americas”, in IACHR: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights‎, 2019 December 9 (last accessed)
  6. Kate Wood (2023) “Is it okay for asexuals to use the term "corrective rape"?”, in I don’t know if this counts but…‎, retrieved 31 May 2023, page 134:
    "There are some vocal voices on the internet who will claim that it is appropriative for asexuals to use the term “corrective rape” – as this was a term coined by black South African feminists to describe a crime perpetrated against black lesbian women in South Africa. The assertion is correct – the term does originate in South Africa in the late 2000s, but it by no means ends there. The phrase has also been used in the rest of Africa, in the Caribbean, in India and other parts of Asia. It did originally apply to lesbians specifically, but it is also used in the context of transgender men. [...] very often those who tell me I cannot use the term are white women. They do not consider that asexual victims of corrective rape may well be black and come from the regions where the term was first used in its original context (because asexuality is often racistly perceived as a white, western concept). Coincidentally, these detractors always seem to be people who are also acephobic, and attempting to exclude us from the queer community altogether."
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