Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Brownshoe]

(05-09-2016, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: Understandable.

On the other hand, you aren't going to get accurate rape statistics. Too many go unreported. My wife was a SANE nurse for several years. Even in a small town, she was called to handle about one a month, but only about once a year did a case go to trial. Most often, the victim didn't want to press charges, she was just going to the hospital to get checked out for STDs/pregnancy. Rape is too personal a crime and too often the victims feel ashamed for there to be any kind of accurate reporting of the numbers.

Doesn't have hospital have to report it to the police if someone comes in and says they have been raped?

Edit: Even if you triple the amounts of rapes / sexual assaults and attribute them all to women it would be .006% of the woman population.