Is campus sexual assault a one-time problem or a serial problem?Thoughts?

WeEatBabies · 2024-09-22T08:01:06+00:00

Good, now do one on serial false accusers!

test_code_in_prod · 2024-09-22T07:27:35+00:00

Well any sexual assault is a problem no matter who the perpetrator or victim is.

phoenician_anarchist · 2024-09-22T07:33:25+00:00

Paywall.
As far as I understand, rape in general is more likely to be a serial offence, which is something that Feminists exploit as they often conflate "number of rapes" and "number of rapists" in order to construct part of their "rape culture" narrative.

Vegetable_Ad1732 · 2024-09-23T01:44:25+00:00

Um, isn't this an anti-feminist finding? I mean they used to say rape was serially committed by a small number of men. Feminists said no, a lot of men are rapists, not a small number. So lots of serial rapists means few men rape. Oh, those that do rape really go to town, but there are fewer of them.

sakura_drop · 2024-09-22T13:50:39+00:00

The issue with this particular topic is that the initial research on the matter was dubious (or rather, bogus) to begin with, not to mention intentionally biased:

The campus rape industry’s central tenet is that one-quarter of all college girls will be raped or be the targets of attempted rape by the end of their college years (completed rapes outnumbering attempted rapes by a ratio of about three to two). The girls’ assailants are not terrifying strangers grabbing them in dark alleys but the guys sitting next to them in class or at the cafeteria.

This claim, first published in Ms. magazine in 1987, took the universities by storm. By the early 1990s, campus rape centers and 24-hour hotlines were opening across the country, aided by tens of millions of dollars of federal funding. Victimhood rituals sprang up: first the Take Back the Night rallies, in which alleged rape victims reveal their stories to gathered crowds of candle-holding supporters; then the Clothesline Project, in which T-shirts made by self-proclaimed rape survivors are strung on campus, while recorded sounds of gongs and drums mark minute-by-minute casualties of the "rape culture." A special rhetoric emerged: victims' family and friends were "co-survivors"; "survivors" existed in a larger "community of survivors."

If the one-in-four statistic is correct—it is sometimes modified to "one-in-five to one-in-four"—campus rape represents a crime wave of unprecedented proportions. No crime, much less one as serious as rape, has a victimization rate remotely approaching 20 or 25 percent, even over many years. The 2006 violent crime rate in Detroit, one of the most violent cities in America, was 2,400 murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults per 100,000 inhabitants—a rate of 2.4 percent. The one-in-four statistic would mean that every year, millions of young women graduate who have suffered the most terrifying assault, short of murder, that a woman can experience. Such a crime wave would require nothing less than a state of emergency—Take Back the Night rallies and 24-hour hotlines would hardly be adequate to counter this tsunami of sexual violence. Admissions policies letting in tens of thousands of vicious criminals would require a complete revision, perhaps banning boys entirely. The nation’s nearly 10 million female undergrads would need to take the most stringent safety precautions. Certainly, they would have to alter their sexual behavior radically to avoid falling prey to the rape epidemic.

None of this crisis response occurs, of course—because the crisis doesn't exist. During the 1980s, feminist researchers committed to the rape-culture theory had discovered that asking women directly if they had been raped yielded disappointing results—very few women said that they had been. So Ms. commissioned University of Arizona public health professor Mary Koss to develop a different way of measuring the prevalence of rape. Rather than asking female students about rape per se, Koss asked them if they had experienced actions that she then classified as rape. Koss's method produced the 25 percent rate, which Ms. then published.

Koss's study had serious flaws. Her survey instrument was highly ambiguous, as University of California at Bereley social-welfare professor Neil Gilbert has pointed out. But the most powerful refutation of Koss’s research came from her own subjects: 73 percent of the women whom she characterized as rape victims said that they hadn't been raped. Further—though it is inconceivable that a raped woman would voluntarily have sex again with the fiend who attacked her—42 percent of Koss’s supposed victims had intercourse again with their alleged assailants.

Take particular note of the second quoted paragraph re. how ludicrous these alleged numbers actually are. Also take note of the source of all this, feminist public health Professor Mary P. Koss, who has served as an advisor to the CDC, the FBI, and Congress and is no stranger to the people here. In a 1993 paper she wrote, Detecting the Scope of Rape: A Review of Prevalence Research Method, she had this to say on male rape victims of female perpetrators:

Although consideration of male victims is within the scope of the legal statutes, it is important to restrict the term rape to instances where male victims were penetrated by offenders. It is inappropriate to consider as a rape victim a man who engages in unwanted sexual intercourse with a woman.

(Pg. 206)

And years later during a 2015 interview on a radio programme by reporter Theresa Phung:

Theresa Phung: "Dr. Koss says one of the main reasons the definition does not include men being forced to penetrate women is because of emotional trauma, or lack thereof."

Dr. Koss: "How do they react to rape. If you look at this group of men who identify themselves as rape victims raped by women you'll find that their shame is not similar to women, their level of injury is not similar to women and their penetration experience is not similar to what women are reporting."

Theresa Phung: "But for men like Charlie this isn't true. It's been eight years since he got off that couch and out of that apartment. But he says he never forgets."

Theresa Phung: "For the men who are traumatized by their experiences because they were forced against their will to vaginally penetrate a woman.."

Dr. Koss: "How would that happen...how would that happen by force or threat of force or when the victim is unable to consent? How does that happen?"

Theresa Phung: "So I am actually speaking to someone right now. his story is that he was drugged, he was unconscious and when he awoke a woman was on top of him with his penis inserted inside her vagina, and for him that was traumatizing."

Dr. Koss: "Yeah."

Theresa Phung: "If he was drugged what would that be called?"

Dr. Koss: "What would I call it? I would call it 'unwanted contact'."

Theresa Phung: "Just 'unwanted contact' period?"

Dr. Koss: "Yeah."

Title	Is campus sexual assault a one-time problem or a serial problem?Thoughts?
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Date	September 22, 2024 6:49 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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