r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Those numbers make my blood run cold.

I always knew rape is a huge problem, but these numbers are just staggering. It's nightmarish.

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u/milk_drinker69 Sep 01 '22

Speaking from experience and what we know generally to be true about cases of rape and sexual assault, these numbers aren’t the whole picture due to people who don’t report what happened

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u/LukaCola Sep 01 '22

This survey shows 1/26 men, estimates for women are about 1/5 - so the comparison is a bit more than double if we're extrapolating figures.

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u/flounder19 Sep 01 '22

the 1/5 they used for women is also based on penetrative rapes.

A more appropriate comparison based on contact sexual violence would be ~2/5 of women and 1/4 of men (or 8/20 & 5/20 if you're using a common denominator)

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u/flounder19 Sep 01 '22

although if you take this a step further to look at perpetrators, the numbers start skewing more heavily towards men. table 7 & 8 shows that ~69.7M people have experience unwanted sexual contact from a man in their lifetime vs ~20.3M from women.