That study seems to be an interesting read. I don't know if I'll have the time to read it all, but I most certainly try.
Random points:
- complaints about the police: is that exclusively so for rape victims? I know many victims of various crimes are dissatisfied with how they are treated by the Justice department and complain about the criminals having more rights than victims;
- the thing about "alcohol administered to facilitate rape". Unless the beverages was forced through her throat using violence, it's a bit easy for a girl that had a drunken one night stand to say afterwards that the guy forced her by getting her drunk. It's you who's pouring the drinks down your throat and losing control; don't blame somebody else for something you regret;
- 1 out of 4 seems like an unbelievably high number. 1 out of 4. That's 25 %. And 91 % of those never tell anyone? 25,00 % of the women around you and me were raped? Do you honestly believe that number? Here, in the West, in this timeframe? Really? That's the kind of number you'd expect in some country torn by civil war. Did they ask the women they surveyed to define "rape" in their own words? Example: A husband says, after a few months of no sex with his wife for no apparent reason, that he has enough of it and that if his wife keeps refusing to have sex with him, he'll divorce her because he finds the current situation humiliating. If she then has sex with him, because she's afraid that after the divorce, she'll find herself in a very difficult financial situation; is that rape or not? After all, the husband threatens her with something from which he knows it'll have severe consequences for her. If she still loves him or she doesn't want to divorce because of the effects on the children and has sex with him for those reason, has she been forced or not? It's not rape at all in my book, but I'm sure a woman in that situation might have a different opinion.How many of such women would answer "yes" to the question "have you ever been forced to have sex against your will" in such a survey?
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