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Facts and Statistics, cont.


Acquaintance Rape:

  • 77% of completed rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim. (Bureau of Justice Statistics. Sex Offenses and Offenders, 1997. U.S. Department of Justice.)
  • In a study surveying more than 6,000 students at 32 colleges and universities in the U.S., 84% knew their attacker, and 57% of the rapes happened on dates. (Warshaw, 1994.)
  • In 29% of rapes, the offender used a weapon. (Ibid.)
  • 13.3% of college women indicated that they had been forced to have sex in a dating situation. (Johnson, et al, 2000. "Forced Sexual Intercourse Among Intimates, " Journal of Interpersonal Violence.)

Sexual Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Individuals (LGBT):

  • In a sample of 412 university students, 16.9% of the subjects reported that they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual; the remainder identified themselves as heterosexual. Of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual subjects 42.4% (30.6% female and 11.8% male) and 21.4% of the heterosexuals (17.8% female and 3.6% male) indicated they had been forced to have sex against their will. (Duncan et al., 199. "Prevalence of Sexual Assault Victimization Among Heterosexual and Gay/Lesbian University Students." Psychological Reports, 66.)
  • In a study of 162 gay men and 111 lesbians, 52% reported at least one incident of sexual coercion by same-sex partners. Gay men experienced 1.6 incidents per person, while lesbians experienced 1.2 incidents per person. (Waldner-Haugrud, et al., 1997. "Sexual Coercion in Gay/Lesbian Relationships: Descriptives and Gender Differences." Violence and Victims, 12 (1))
  • 15% of men who lived with a man as a couple reported being raped/assaulted or stalked by a male cohabitant. (Saltzman, et al., 1999. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance: Uniform definitions and recommended data elements.)

      • Male Victims of Sexual Assault:

      • An estimated 92,700 men are forcibly raped each year in the United States. (Tjaden and Thoemmes, 1998.)
      • Male rape accounted for about 8% of all rapes. Crimes including rapes that occurred in an institutionalized setting (such as prison, hospital or the military) were not measured in the survey.
        (National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice, 1992.)
      • Estimates suggest that males account for 25% to 35% of child sexual abuse victims. (Finkelhor, "Current Information on the Scope and Nature of Child Sexual Abuse," 1994.)