Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Benton]

(05-09-2016, 11:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You're kind of arguing against yourself here. Victims of the crimes you listed may not feel they were are active participant in the crime committed against them. However, a rape "victim" may feel that he or she was an active member in a situation that got out of hand because both parties had lowered their inhibitions.  

I'd agree with the 'situation that got out of hand' part, but not really the lowered inhibitions. I know it's a major part of this thread, but out of all the rapes I covered, I don't recall any being a 'too drunk' to consent. It happens, but to what extent I have no idea. I'm mainly referring to those physically assaulted who are too embarrassed/scared/desperate to testify against an attacker. And those may be a very small or a large percentage of cases. I really don't know as statistics on sexual assault are very hard to get accurate numbers. 

As I said, in my own experience, if you look at the numbers for my area, it's relatively small if you look at the number of convictions for sexual related assaults. But through my exposure to the courts and the medical side of it, I knowthere are a lot more who start the process, but don't end up going any further.