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Thus, if rape occurs, it is considered to be at least partly the woman's fault, and her virtue is called into question.

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The definition does not change federal or state criminal codes or impact charging and prosecution on the federal, state, or local level; it rather means that rape will be more accurately reported nationwide.

Follow up examinations also assess the patient for , , sleep pattern disturbances, gastrointestinal irritability, chronic pelvic pain, menstrual pain or irregularity, pelvic inflammatory disease, sexual dysfunction, premenstrual distress, fibromyalgia, vaginal discharge, vaginal itching, burning during urination, and generalized vaginal pain.

"The Relationship of Victim Injury to the Progression of Sexual Crimes through the Criminal Justice System".

Acquiring sexually transmitted infections increases the risk of acquiring HIV.

Transitions in women's roles in society were also shifting, causing alarm and blame towards rape victims.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in its landmark 1998 judgment used a definition of rape that did not use the word 'consent': "a physical invasion of a sexual nature committed on a person under circumstances which are coercive.

1 million women were raped in the United States during this two-year period Kilpatrick, Resnick, Saunders, Best, 1997.