Editing Gang rape (section)

===As punishment===
{{See also|Corrective rape}}
A 2013 Lancet report on rape and gang rape in [[Bangladesh]], [[China]], [[Cambodia]], [[Indonesia]], [[Papua New Guinea]], and [[Sri Lanka]] found that the crime was committed for various motives, including as a means to inflict punishment on the victim.<ref name=lancetrapestudy/>

Traditionally, the [[Cheyenne people]] of [[North America]] used gang rape as punishment for female transgressions.<ref name=rape4>{{cite book|title = Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender|page = [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_g9b9/page/299 299]|last = Worell|first = Judith|publisher = Academic Press|year = 2001|isbn = 9780122272455|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_g9b9/page/299}}</ref> A similar practice existed among the [[Munduruku people]] of [[South America]].<ref name=rape5>{{cite book|title=Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/weavingpasthisto00kell |url-access=limited |last = Kellogg|first = Susan|publisher=Oxford University Press|year = 2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/weavingpasthisto00kell/page/n163 150]|isbn = 9780198040422}}</ref>

In the [[Mpumalanga]] province of [[South Africa]], there are instances of gang rape as punishment.<ref name=rape6>{{cite book|title = South African Supplement to Social Psychology 3e| author = Mynhardt|page = 7|publisher = Pearson South Africa| isbn = 9781770255241|year = 2009}}</ref> In [[Argentina]] and [[Pakistan]],<ref>{{cite book|title = The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Volume 8|page = 103|publisher = Georgetown University Law Center|year=2007}}</ref> gang rape has been reported to have been ordered as punishment.