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Who We Are

UCSC Rape Prevention Education was founded in 1979 to educate the community about the realities, the causes and the prevention of rape; to provide crisis counseling for rape survivors and their loved ones and to make rape an issue of public concern and discussion. Gillian Greensite (director), a team of dedicated peer educators and many volunteers comprise Rape Prevention Education.

Our Philosophy

Our perspective is that rape is socially, not biologically conditioned. Although most men do not rape, societies that encourage aggressive masculinity and objectification/exploitation of women as the norm, have alarmingly high rates of rape. Viewing rape as an individual problem does not address the underlying causes. Men and women need to come together to discuss and strategize the profound social, political and economic changes needed to create a rape free world.

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Page owner: Gillian Greensite <g_g@cats.ucsc.edu>