A study conducted on a southern campus investigated victim labeling of forced sexual intercourse as rape. The findings indicated that victims tended to reject the label of rape even when they believed that their offenders labeled the acts as rape, that many continued to date their offenders, and that victims tended to label their offenders in positive rather than in negative terms.
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