Given the ethnic dimension of sexuality, rape can become a means of ethnic cleansing or genocide, as has been claimed in relation to systematic instances of rape in Rwanda and Bosnia.
考虑到性所蕴含的种族性，强奸可能变成种族清理或种族屠杀的一种形式，正如发生在卢旺达和波斯尼亚的强奸所蕴含的计划性一样。