Rape (disambiguation)

Rape derives from the Latin "rapio", "to seize". Rape may refer to:

*Rape, forced sexual intercourse.
**In some jurisdictions rape refers to other forms of sexual assault
*Rape crisis centers, organisations that help victims of rape, sexual abuse, and other forms of sexual violence
*Rape fantasy, a sexual fantasy in which a person imagines being coerced, raped, or otherwise forced into a sex act
*Rape drug, any drug that can be used to assist in the commission of a sexual assault
*Rape culture, a term used in women's studies to describe a culture in which rape and other types of sexual violence are common
*Rape shield law, a law that limits a defendant's ability to cross-examine rape complainants about their past sexual behaviour
*Rape trauma syndrome, a group of signs, symptoms and reactions of a rape victim
*Rape porn,a genre of pornography involving the depiction of rape

Legends, art and poetry

*Rape (poem), a poem by Adrienne Rich
*"Rape", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1973 book "Witt"
*"The Rape of the Lock", a mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope
*"The Rape of Lucrece", a narrative poem by William Shakespeare
*"The Rape of Lucretia", an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten
*The Rape of Proserpine, a classical mythological subject in Western art
**"The Rape of Proserpina (Bernini)", a statue by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
*The Rape of the Sabine Women, a Roman legend, and many artworks derived from it

Film

*Rape (film), a film by Norwegian director Anja Breien
*Rape / Revenge, a genre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s

Books

*"Rape and Representation", a book of essays edited by Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver and published in 1991
*"Rape of Nanking (book)" (1997), a bestselling non-fiction book by Iris Chang
*"Rape of the Fair Country" (1959), a novel by Alexander Cordell
*"Rape Fantasies", a short story by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood

Music

*"Rape Me", a song by the American grunge band Nirvana
*Rape Of The World, Marilyn Manson's 2007-2008 tour
*"Rape On The Installment Plan", the first studio album by the noise rock band The Heroine Sheiks
*"Rape Scene", an album by Thighpaulsandra
*"Rape of the Bastard Nazarene", the first album by British blackened death metal band Akercocke

Bible

*Rape of Dinah
*Rape of Tamar

Historical events

*Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, a war crime
*Rape of Athens, a controversial incident in Athens, Alabama during the American Civil War
*Rape of Belgium, a series of German war crimes in the opening months of World War I
*The Battle of Malaya is sometimes known as the Rape of Malaya
*Rape of Manila, the atrocities conducted against Filipino civilians in Manila by Japanese troops during World War II
*Rape of the Falls, a British Army operation on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland in July 1970

Rape by country

*Rape In The Philippines

Other

*"RapeLay", Japanese computer game
*Rape (botany), plant also known as also known as oilseed rape, rapa, rapaseed, rapeseed and canola
*Rape (county subdivision), a traditional sub-division of the county of Sussex in England
*Rape rack, a device used in experiments conducted on monkeys during the 1970s
*Rape Art Productions, an Ecuadorian independent record label
*Rape Choke, a slang term used in mixed martial arts

ee also

*Raptus
*Rapture
*Seize