Rape is about control, power, domination: NOT sex. Rapists want to humiliate the victim.
Research shows that over 50% of rapes are planned. Rape is not an act of uncontrollable passion, it's a premeditated act of violence. Men are physically able to stop at any point during or before sexual activity.
Most rapes are committed by someone that the victim knows: an acquaintance, friend, neighbor, spouse, an intimate partner or an ex partner, or family member; not strangers.
The majority of rape victims are women, from infancy to old age.
Rapists look for vulnerable targets. Thinking that women provoke attacks against them by the way they dress transfers blame from the perpetrator to the victim. Research shows that this particular myth helps others feel better because they think that rape couldn’t happen to them.
Heterosexual men are responsible for the majority of all rapes.
Studies of rapists state that rapists are ordinary men.
Estimates show that between 50-90% of rapes go unreported.
Only 3% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail: 97 of every 100 rapists receive no punishment.