It’s more of a cumulative thing. Studies which have even remotely reasonable definitions of rape, while differentiating rape from ogling, tend to go that way.
Tangential posts:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3238798/posts
Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995–2013
US Dept Justice ^ | December 2014 | Sofi Sinozich & Lynn Langton
Posted on December 18, 2014 11:56:07 PM EST by fkabuckeyesrule
For the period 1995–2013, females ages 18 to 24 had the highest rate of rape and sexual assault victimizations compared to females in all other age groups. Within the 18 to 24 age group, victims could be identified as students enrolled in a college, university, trade school or vocational school or as nonstudents. Among student victims, 20% of rape and sexual assault victimizations were reported to police, compared to 32% reported among nonstudent victims ages 18 to 24.
Post 14 is also notable.
The main post refers to the following Coulter article, which has some similar numbers to what I stated:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-12-17.html
The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.
To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.
So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!
That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller’s 1975 book, “Against Our Will” — which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.
Thanks. I’m always suspicious of hard and fast numbers, because to arrive at them requires god-like knowledge of The Truth of the situation, which humans just cannot have.
BTW, would like to point out that there are a number of reasons a woman might recant an accusation, such as being pressured or intimidated into doing. A recantation does not in and of itself prove the original accusation was false.
In a true date-rape situation, all parties are agreed intercourse took place, the only issue contested is whether it was consensual.
I find it quite impossible in this scenario to see how either party can “prove” innocence or guilt. Two people each have a story, which contradict each other drastically, and from this we’re supposed to determine “beyond a reasonable doubt” if the accused is guilty?
How is that even in theory possible?
Because feminists insist that all sex is rape, even sex in marriage.