Acquaintance Sexual Assault:
The statistics make “hidden” rape or acquaintance rape “more common than left handedness, heart attacks, or alcoholism.  These rapes are not a recent campus fad or fantasy of a few jilted females.  They are real.  And they are happening all around us,” says Robin Warshaw in I Never Called It Rape.

Females

• 1 in 3 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime

• 1 in 7 males will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

• Victimization rates were highest among women ages 15-34

• A woman’s risk of being raped by someone she knows is 4 times greater than being raped by a stranger 

• One in 7 women reported being raped by their husband

• An estimated 80% of all rape is date or acquaintance rape

• Based on police reports, 16 rapes are attempted and 10 women are raped every hour

• Fifty two percent of men convicted of rape will be re-arrested again within 3 years

• In one study, 89 rapists attempted and completed 744 rapes of 657 victims with an average number of victims per offender at 7.5.