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• 12.1 million American women have been victims of forcible rape. In other words, 13% or one out of eight adult American women has been the victim of forcible rape in her lifetime. (1992)


• Data from an urban, hospital-based rape crisis center revealed that, of male and female adult victims of completed, forcible rape, men were more likely to have been raped by more than one assailant and by a Caucasian, but were less likely to have been physically harmed. (Frazier, 1993).

• Sexual assault is reported by 33-46% of women who are being physically assaulted by their husbands. (Frieze, Browne, Violence in Marriage, in Ohlin, Tonry, eds. Family Violence: Crime and Justice, a Review of Research, 1989).
http://www.nycagainstrape.org/research_factsheet_6.html

* 38% of women who have been raped were 14-17 years old at the time of the attack


* 75% of acquaintance rapes involve alcohol
* 3.3 million Americans aged 14-17 are considered problem drinkers



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