According to national statistics, one in four women will be sexually assaulted by the time they turn 18. In 2005, there were 191,670 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assaults according to the 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey.
Why?!
I truly believe that society has the resources to put an end to rape and sexual victimization. At the very least, we can drastically reduce it. Why don’t we?
Why does the country waste so much of its resources on other needless endeavors, such as the “war on drugs” and the occupation of Iraq?
Thursday, April 10th 2008 at 7:39 pm
So “1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted by 18”? Why is it there’s no talk of the the males under age 18 who sexually assulted (by women)? Seems like many sexist people don’t wish to look at the whole rape/sexual assault issue. nor do we hear of the women who beat there husbands, kill men and boys. I’m surprise that the words “abuse” and “sexual abuse” are only used when women are the victims and men are the perputators.
Please look at these web sites:
http://www.canadiancrc.com/female_sexual_predators_awareness.aspx
http://www.malesurvivor.org/Prevention%20&%20Education/Articles/pban.htm
http://www.cyberparent.com/abuse/abuseupdate.htm
Saturday, July 28th 2007 at 1:46 pm
Bill Hartwell,
Perhaps you misread the statistic. It says that 1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted by 18. Perhaps, you are only thinking of completed rapes? Perhaps, you are only thinking of per year, rather than all 18 years.
Really, do you think, if you had an auditorium filled with 400 18-year-old girls and asked them to raise their hand if they had ever been sexually victimized, that only 1 girl on average would raise her hand?
I can go out to a club or bar with far less than 400 women/girls and I am likely to see more than 1 get sexually assaulted just in that one single night.
Anyway, here are some other sites that cite the same statistic:
http://www.citizensforaonestrikelaw.org/id41.htm
http://www.ccasa.org/statistics.cfm
http://www.ncdsv.org/images/SexualAssaultStatistics.pdf
Although, in the end, I think we can agree that with nearly 200,000 sexual victimizations each year, it doesn’t matter what the ratio is. Let’s just put an end to it.
Thanks,
Scott
Thursday, July 26th 2007 at 7:39 am
The question I have is, where does this 1:4 figure come from? The last time I looked at the National Crime Victimization statistics, the figure was closer to 1:400, not 1:4. So who is it who profits from claiming that it’s 1:4?