Corrective rape

Corrective rape ( English "corrective rape", "corrective rape "; also curative rape , "healing rape") is a euphemism in the English language, which describes the rape of homosexual people, with the intention of thereby the sexual orientation of the victim to change.

history

The term is mainly used for events in South Africa , where over 30 rapes resulting in death are known. On July 7, 2007, the lesbian couple Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Massooa were raped and murdered. This resulted in the 07/07/07 Campaign , a coalition of various human rights groups that campaigns for the victims of such attacks. An internationally sensational case occurred in April 2008 when the former South African national soccer player and LGBT activist Eudy Simelane was raped by a group of men and then murdered with 25 stab wounds. Here, an offender was sentenced to prison. The court found that the victim's sexual orientation had no influence on the crime.

The South African psychologist Kerry Frizelle describes corrective rape as a hate crime in which the victims would be discriminated twice on the basis of their gender and sexual orientation .

See also

• Lesbophobia

Web links

• Lesbians in South Africa: Corrective rape on the rise, i-namibia.de, March 20, 2009

• Cruel corrections , Süddeutsche Zeitung - Jetzt.de, December 11, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tortured, raped, slain , Spiegel Online , December 7, 2011, accessed November 20, 2015
2. ↑ Annie Kelly: Raped and killed for being a lesbian, South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks , The Guardian, March 12, 2009
3. ^ 'Corrective' rape should be a hate crime , The Guardian, March 13, 2009