In Resisting Violence Against Women, statistics show that sexual assault occurs every two minutes, rape happens every eight minutes, meaning about 56 women are victimized every hour. Rape culture within society often blames women rather than helping them find justice.
Because society is so desensitized to sexual forms of abuse, it is ignored.
Sexual abuse is directed mainly towards people that lack power by people that have and seek power and control. People that often experience sexual abuse are women and children. One form of sexual abuse is rape, and it is underreported. And it usually has an external impact that society does not take seriously unless there are physical wounds as evidence.
According to FBI reports less than three percent of rape accusations are false fueled by intentions to harm a person reputation.
Rapes often go unreported because of this especially less likely to report rape if they know their assailant. This makes it extremely hard for women to feel safe in reporting being raped. They fear they will be blamed, as well as told they are only doing it for attention. For women that do choose to report their rape, they are often faced with questions of what they were wearing, how much did they drink that night, and how did they behave? Even in cases where a woman is drugged, it is hard for people to believe that she was assaulted due to how fast the drug metabolizes. It leaves little evidence to support a woman’s claim of being drugged and due to the body's natural self-healing. Sexual assault victims are the only victims that are blamed for what happened to them. We as a society must continue to combat the ideas of rape culture and work for justice for victims of sexual violence. And the rehabilitation of offenders.
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