Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[THE Bigzoman]

(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.

It being difficult to gather and quantify accurate data doesn't justify taking a ton of ambiguous data and calling it something it isn't.