--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snippage>
> >
> > Both women and men have been surveyed and about 1
> > in 4 women have been the victim of a sexual assult,
> > and about 1 in 7 men.
> >
> > Now, this is slightly old data, and I wouldn't be
> > shocked if its down to 1
> > in 5 women or 1 in 10 men. But a casual statistical
> > survey of my friends
> > indicates that the official numbers look close.
>
> In a project I worked on in 1987 (survey conducted at
> a university-associated clinic, data unpublished
> AFAIK, N ~ 200), the numbers were 1 in 7 women and 1
> in 10 men reported having been sexually assaulted, at
> some point in their lives. That also fit fairly well
> with my group of friends at the time. About half of
> the incidents involving my friends were childhood
> (pre-pubescent) age.
Since we are speaking anicdotaly. These numbers fit for my experiences if we
are counting pre-pubescent on pre-pubescent assaults and pubecent on
pre-pubecent assults.
Once again however, I don't think you can say that every time you get X
number of people in a room Y of them have sexualy assulted. It depends on
what demographic the people are in.
I am NOT saying that this problem does not exist. What I am saying is, there
is no reason to sit in a room with 10 avarage men and think "oh my god, one
of these thugs might sexualy assult me."...then again, it never hurst to be
causious, having personal use of leathal force might not be a bad idea.
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