08-01-2003, 03:13 PM
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Loser
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From SecretMethod70 (who asked me to post this for him):
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Here are some interesting tidbits of information...
"In 1996, the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Research on Violence Against Women concluded on page 1 of its report, Understanding Violence Against Women, that 'between 13 and 25 percent of all US women will experience rape. These figures are believed to be underestimates.'"
"The US Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that nearly all rape victims are young: 88 percent of the 1,634,000 female victims reported in a huge sample from the 1980s were between the ages of twelve and thirty-fiev years old. By the mid-1990s, 90.3 percent of all known rapes occurred in this age group, which encompassed fewer than one third of all females in America, but included nearly all fertile women. Even more revealing, although 77 percent of all rape victims were between 16 and 24 years old, these women accounted for only about one tenth - again, the most fertile and sexually attractive one tenth - of the entire female population."
"Two thirds of men who raped the 1.6 million victims above were strangers. By 1990, 88 percent of reported rapists were solitary sexual predators who shared their victims with no one. And, like their victims, sexual predators were typically young. 44% of men arrested for rape were under 25 years old; most of the remaining rapists were men in their late twenties or thirties. Only a third of these men were under the influence ... during their offenses."
"Like most felons, sexual predators are uneducated, are unemployed or underemployed, and have low incomes. Indeed, the most common trait of men arrested for rape is that they are early losers ... in the socioeconomic arena. (This may help to explain why blacks account for a disproportionate, but stable, 42 percent of arrests for rape.)"
"Although nearly all sexual predators threaten to use force, only 14.8 percent of US rapists use a weapon. In the mid-1990s, these weapons were mostly knives. Only 5.9 percent of known rapists use a gun. One quarter of rapists use threats but comit no violence. Surprisingly, the use of a weapon raises the success of rape attempts by only 9 percent."
"'Most individuals using self-protection were victims of attempted rape [only 27 percent were raped],' notes [the US Department of Justice bulletin] The Crime of Rape, 'while most not using self-protection were victims of completed rapes [56 percent were raped].' This huge survey of rape victims [479,000] reveals that a woman who protects herself, whether by arguing, screaming, running away, and/or fighting back, doubles her chances of escaping rape, but she raises her odds of being physically harmed by only 10 percent."
Just a few tidbits of info - all taken from the book "The Dark Side of Man" by Dr. Michael P. Ghiglieri. VERY good read, and I recommend it to anyone. It sets out to begin to explain and understand the root of violence, discussing the ature of the 4 major forms of violence in humans: rape, murder, war, and genocide.
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