An excellent article on how rape statistics may be false or exaggerated leaderu.com/real/ri9502/so
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theres a book from the 90s called The New Victorians (by rene denfeld), which talks about similar stuff, its a good read
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one of the issues is that there is a continuum to the definition that researchers and potential victims may not agree on.
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I worry that the borderline cases where women don't feel victimized are influenced by societal cues that that's just how men are
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some of our law is based on our perception of being wronged and some is not. If some think they weren't raped there might...
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...still be behavior we wish to discourage as a society. Statistics can be used many ways so we must use and view them prudently
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but I'd hope all can agree regardless of estimated prevalence rape should be discouraged as strongly as any other heinous crime