I'm speaking of average age. The average age of a murder victim for example....is 34. The average age of a robbery victim is 30. But rape? The average age is 26. The youngest of any major violent crime. With a full 1/5th of all rapes occurring among women age 18 to 21.
Just those 3 years.
While women who are over 50 are less than 3% of rape victims. Despite being a vastly larger demo.
That's because the average age of all victims of violent crime skews young.
Persons under 25 made up almost 50% of everyone
suffering a serious violent crime and almost
56% of rape/sexual assault victims.
And you are including child rape which is more often by a family member or family friend.
Pedophilia is not about the way they are dressed.
Rape is more about access and opportunity not the victim.
Rapist is not looking for someone with almost no clothes on, but someone that can be caught off guard and alone.
Rape is about power not sex. Why do people keep trying to insist it is somehow invited by the woman? It does not matter what she wears. On a practical matter, pants are more difficult to remove than if she was wearing a dress. Tights are more difficult than stockings and a garter. A woman alone is more at risk than if she is with someone, even another woman/girl. If she is walking and looks nervous or always looking over her shoulder, it gives the impression she is vulnerable and weak. If she is walking with a stead step and head held high, she is less likely to be a temptation. If she is carrying an umbrella or a collapsing night stick, she will not be as tempting. Maybe she has a whistle around her neck, again less tempting. If she knows were she is going as apposed to looking lost, she is safer. If she is talking on the phone someone will hear if she is in trouble and can track her phone, less tempting.
Rapists can almost smell fear, that is what gives them a sense of power.
More people will be raped by someone they know, or recently met than grabbed off the street by a stranger. How they dress is immaterial. Rape is not about sex, that is not the motive just the end result. It is about abuse.
Even a wife can be raped by her husband and it does no matter if she just got out or shower with just a towel on if she has a long flannel night gown. It could be a moment of normal sex turned aggressive. She could say no and he would not care or listen. It could be a form of punishment for an imagined wrong. It could be sodomizing a woman. It could be using an object.
A dirty old man in an alley is not the typical rapist.
Women need to learn not to take a drink ordered by someone else or handed to them by someone other than the waitress/bartender. Don't drink too much. Don't use drugs. Know who you are with. Have a buddy system. Know a few basic moves to defend her self. Carry a whistle or something to use as a weapon, even car keys. Carry a phone. Make sure you have a set time of contact so others know you are OK and on your way home. It is not that hard to not be a victim of someone outside the family. Within the family or close circle is different. In that situation it might be someone as small as the turn of neck or the way you blink that they believe is a turn on or opening to vulnerability. Rape is usually an act of anger or abuse. It really has little to do with being sexy or sex.
Even if there is some fantasy role playing of rape, those couples have safe words and stop when the submissive says that word.
