https://rainn.org/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/statistics-victims-of-sexual-violence/
Aug 28, 2025 — Young Women are Especially at Risk. 82% of all juvenile victims are female. 90% of adult rape victims are female. 1Department of Justice ...Read more
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/type/sexual_assault_adult.asp
Nearly 44% of women in the U.S. had experienced sexual violence during their lifetime, including childhood, with 21% experiencing rape or attempted rape and ...Read more
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/statistics-sexual-violence/
Who carries out rape and other sexual offences? · 2 in 5rapes against women. are carried out by their partner or ex-partner · 91%of people prosecuted for sexual ...Read more
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39077946/
by M Wieberneit · Cited by 38 — Silenced Survivors: A Systematic Review of the Barriers to Reporting, Investigating, Prosecuting, and Sentencing of Adult Female Rape and Sexual
https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/pubs/OVC_Archives/reports/help_series/pdftxt/sexualassaultvictimization.pdf
One out of 8 adult women, or at least 12.1 million American women, has been the victim of forcible rape. □ Sixty-one percent of forcible rapes occur before.Read more
https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics/statistics-depth/
Despite the increase in self-reports of rape and sexual assault, there was a decrease in reporting to police from 2017 to 2018. Forty-percent (40%) of rapes and ...Read more
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/04/sexual-assault
The risk of injury increases for adult female rape survivors in the following situations: the perpetrator is a current or former intimate partner; the rape ...Read more
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380241261404
by M Wieberneit · 2024 · Cited by 38 — Examples of such beliefs are that women commonly lie about rape (Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1994) and that most rapes are committed by strange
https://www.aaets.org/traumatic-stress-library/emergency-management-of-the-adult-female-rape-victim
by DK Beebe · Cited by 100 — (1) A high incidence of sexual dysfunction during rape has been reported, with roughly 50 percent of assailants experiencing impotence or ejaculator
https://nownyc.org/issues/get-the-facts-take-rape-seriously/
8% percent of rapes occur while the victim is at work. · In 80% of rape and sexual assault cases that take place at work, women are the victims. · 19% of adult ...Read more
https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/facts-and-figures/facts-and-figures-ending-violence-against-women
Nov 19, 2025 — Social media is the main platform for this type of abuse, with nearly half (44 per cent) of women lawmakers reporting receiving death, rape, ...Read more
https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/forms-abuse/sexual-abuse-and-exploitation/sexual-assault-rape/steps-take-after-sexual-0
Local rape crisis or sexual assault program staff may be able to assist you, regardless of whether you decide to report the assault to the police.1. If you feel ...Read more
https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics/
Over 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.Read more
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-law-in-context/article/oh-youre-a-guy-how-could-you-be-raped-by-a-woman-that-makes-no-sense-towards-a-case-for-legally-recognising-and-labelling-forcedtopenetrate-cases-as-rape/8166CABA33BBE64EBBAD384E1FE13551
by S Weare · 2018 · Cited by 93 — This paper argues that consideration needs to be given to legally recognising and thus labelling forced-to-penetrate cases as rape.Read more
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/trauma/trauma_eng.pdf
by L Haskell · Cited by 124 — Another dominant rape myth is that women and children are prone to “lie” about experiences of sexual assault and sexual abuse. These kinds of
https://www.cdc.gov/sexual-violence/about/index.html
by VASV Prevention · 2024 — More than 1 in 5 women and 1 in 31 men have experienced completed or attempted rape in their lifetimes.2; 1 in 26 men were made to penetrate ...Read
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7375935/
by KC Basile · 2020 · Cited by 106 — Approximately 71.3% of female lifetime rape victims (an estimated 16.4 million) reported some form of physical health, mental health, or he
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213414001847
by L Edinburgh · 2014 · Cited by 43 — The gang-related multiple perpetrator rapes did not appear to be motivated by inter-gang rivalry, and they victims were not aware of their
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape
Statutory rape is nonforcible sexual activity in which one of the individuals is below the age of consent (the age required to legally consent to the behaviour ...Read more
https://www.humboldt.edu/supporting-survivors/educational-resources/statistics
An estimated 91% of victims of rape & sexual assault are female and 9% male. ... While 80% of reported rapes are against white women, minorities are more likely ...Read more