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Title: ‘Corrective rape’ in SA schools
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2008, 06:43:33 AM
'Corrective rape' in SA schools
Sapa    Published:Mar 12, 2008

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=725535 (http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=725535)

This refers to an instance where a male learner rapes a lesbian female learner in the belief that after such a sexual attack the learner will no longer be lesbian

Corrective rape, where a male pupil rapes a female lesbian pupil to "make her heterosexual", was a growing phenomenon in schools, the SA Human Rights Commission said in a report released today.

A gay and lesbian rights group told the commission during public hearings that homosexual pupils experienced "high levels of prejudice" at school resulting in "exclusion, marginalisation and victimisation".