1. Men in Fraternities appear to engage in more non-physical coercion and use of drugs and alcohol as a sexual strategy than do independents.
2. Every 21 hours there is another rape on an American college campus.
3. 90% of all campus rapes occur under the influence of alcohol.
4. Men are more likely than women to assume that a woman who drinks alcohol on a date is a willing sex partner, 40% of men who think this way also believe it is acceptable to force sex on an intoxicated woman.
5. Alcohol use at the time of that attack was found to be one of the four strongest predictors of a college woman being raped.
6. 43% of college men admit using coercive behavior to have sex, including ignoring a woman’s protest; using physical aggression; and forcing intercourse.
7. College rape victims receive external physical injuries in over 47% of all rapes.
8. Of the college women who are raped, only 10% report the rape.
9. College women are most vulnerable to rape during the first few weeks of the freshman and sophomore years.
10. One in twelve college-age men admit having fulfilled the prevailing definition of rape or attempted rape, yet virtually none of these men identify themselves as rapists.
11. Most rapes occur on the weekends.
“College Campuses and Rape.” College Campuses and Rape. Psc, 2000. Web. 26 April 2011.
From these statistics we can see that college women are at risk of being raped. I know it is scary and we want to ignore it but we need to face reality ladies, this could happen to us. The more we are prepared for it then we will decrease our chances of it happening to us. I hope from seeing this information it opens your eyes to what is happening on college campuses.
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