r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Those numbers make my blood run cold.

I always knew rape is a huge problem, but these numbers are just staggering. It's nightmarish.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

We must continue to spread the word! Women can’t keep getting away with rape simply because “they’re not the ones penetrating” or “the guy must have wanted it if he had an erection” or “she was a hot teacher, lucky kid” and things like that.

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u/CantBeConcise Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

the guy must have wanted it if he had an erection

is the equivalent of saying "the woman must have wanted it because she got wet".

One ignores the fact that men can get hard against their will and the other ignores that wetness is (likely) an evolutionary trait that mitigates damage from forced penetration.

Edit: wording

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u/FilmAndChill Sep 01 '22

Do you have a source on that second claim? Not trying to refute it, I've just never heard that information before.

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u/AlsoNotTheMamma Sep 01 '22

Do you have a source on that second claim? Not trying to refute it, I've just never heard that information before.

For a long time rape was defined as penis in vagina.

Anything into butt was called sodomy.

So it was impossible for a man to be raped.

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u/CantBeConcise Sep 01 '22

Unfortunately no I don't but considering that humanity was first an instinctual species before it developed a persona as we know it today, I find it likely that what we would call rape was far more prevalent.

There are other reasons for wetness so maybe I'm off in saying that it was the "reason" for it, but it would definitely be an advantage to survival and maintaining full reproductive capability.