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Originally Posted by Kobi

"Every four minutes a local radio station broadcasts a ping -- a reminder that a person is raped in South Africa, on average, every four minutes."

"Some 71% of women report having been victims of sexual abuse, the government notes."

Pretty disgusting statistics.

Incredibly so.
I believe that statistically, those rates are similar in North America, with the discrepancies being under/non-reporting of sexualized abuses/traumas. There are many many reasons for this, but the end result is that the pervasiveness of sexualized crimes/traumas are not accurate. They reflect only reported instances.

We know women don't tell. We know women have lived for years with the silence of their abuses and trauma. We know women can block out childhood trauma's completely, so again, under reporting. And we know also, of course, that boys and men are also victimized this way, although the stats for men goes down sharply after adulthood.

If you broaden the definition from 'rape' which must include forcible penetration by it's definition, and include any forced, unwanted, sexualized violence, I think our heads would explode trying to wrap our minds around it.

It seems the one unifying cultural trait that all continents and countries share, is one of RAPE CULTURE.

A quarter of all the boys interviewed (in Soweto) said that 'jackrolling', a term for gang rape, was fun. (wikipedia sourced)