rape culture noun2 •A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture. — 1977 •The cultivation (growing or production) of rape.In Flanders, where rape culture is practised upon the most extensive and economical scale, the stubble is ploughed twice […] — 1801 formsrape cultures