Ways to Protect Against Rape
Here are some suggestions
for ways to protect yourself:
- Don't walk alone at
night. Call the Escort Service at 597-4400 or
Security at 597-4444.
- Lock your door both
when asleep and when leaving your room.
- Trust your feelings. If
you feel you are being pressured into sex, you
probably are.
- Set sexual limits; even
though you may have different limits with
different people and your limits may change, it
is important to have them.
- Be assertive in
communicating your limits. Be direct and firm
when your limits are being violated. Act
immediately with a strong negative response.
There are varying attitudes
towards methods of self defense, but one suggestion is to
ask yourself three questions:
- What is
available to me?
- What targets
are open?
- How threatened
do I feel?
If you decide to fight an
attacker, commit yourself 100%!!!
- First, try a loud
verbal assault.
- Remember your natural
weapons: head, teeth, shoulders, elbows, forearms,
hands, hip, knees, shins, and feet.
- Also remember the body
targets: hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, throat,
collar bone, underarm, biceps, solar plexus,
hands, ribs, stomach, kidney, spine, groin, inner
thigh, outer thigh, knee, shin, and feet.
- Try to bend your knees,
put your chin down, and raise your hands.
- Scream "NO!"
when striking your attacker
If you have the opportunity,
take a self-defense class to raise your confidence and
learn defensive maneuvers.
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