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From: vsh@pixdoc.UUCP (Steve Harris)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape statistics
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:14:37 EST
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>>You are assuming that, while 9/10 of the women don't get raped, the
>>1/10 that do are raped an average of 2.5 times each....

>...A woman who lives and/or works in a
>high  crime  area  is much more likely to be raped than one who doesn't...

I have heard that most rapes are by "friends and relatives", not the classic
"dark alley knife wielding fiend".  Because the victim does not confront the 
rapist later (often denies it to herself), the rape recurs.
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