Romance often has a dark side. As Graydon notes, the media infantilize women, portraying them as child like, innocent and vulnerable. Being vulnerable is often closely linked to being a potential victim of violence. Violence against women generally refers to any act of gender-based violence or forceful deprivation occasioned by physical and/ or psychological means leading to suffering of harm to women. Violation of right to socialize and education, traditional/customary limitations, systematic exploitation, forced marriage, sexual and physical abuse, and forced prostitution are all different forms of this heinous act.
It is no longer news that some girls and women are likely to experience different forms of sexual violence in their life time. Some experience violence at every stage of their development raging from child sexual abuse, infanticide and neglect, to dating violence, sexual harassment at school, acquaintance rape, sexual harassment at workplace and intimate partner violence.
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