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Nearly 20% of women in the US are raped or suffer attempted rape at some point in their lives, a US study says. Even more women, estimated at 25%, have been attacked by a partner or husband, the Centers for Disease Control said. The findings form part of the first set of results from a nationwide study surveying sexual violence by intimate partners against men and women. More than 24 people a minute reported rape, violence, or stalking, it says, with 12 million offences reported. Experts at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) described the results of the first year of the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey as "astounding". Among the key figures included in the survey's findings were: more than one million women reported being raped in the 12 months prior to the survey more than six million women and men were a victim of stalking more than 12 million women and men reported rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner over the course of a year. Lifelong hurt "People who experience sexual violence, stalking or intimate partner violence often deal with the effects for their entire life," said Dr Linda Degutis, director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Many of those attacked experience rape or sexual assault in their early years, with almost 80% of rape victims suffering their ordeal before before the age of 25. Some 35% of women raped before they were aged 18 were also raped as adults, Dr Degutis added. Among the effects measured by the study, Dr Degutis said, were increased fears for safety and incidents of post-traumatic stress among victims. Clinical conditions including asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, frequent headaches, chronic pain and difficulty sleeping were also more likely in women who are raped or subject to assault. There were also clear findings about the incidences of attacks on men and observations about health impacts on men who suffer rape or sexual assault. An estimated one in 71 men has been raped at some point in their lives, the study finds. Almost 53% of male victims experienced some form of intimate partner violence for the first time before the age of 25. Some 25% of male rape victims were first raped when they were 10 years old or younger, the findings show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16192494 SO US is rape country :blink::blink:
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Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted n exhaustive government survey of rape and domestic violence released on Wednesday affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought. Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported having been beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report. ŵhat almost one in five women have been raped in their lifetime is very striking and, I think, will be surprising to a lot of people, said Linda C. Degutis, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the survey. Ū donÃÕ think weÃ×e really known that it was this prevalent in the population, she said. The study, called the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, was begun in 2010 with the support of the National Institute of Justice and the Department of Defense. The study, a continuing telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults, defines intimate partner and sexual violence broadly. The surveyors elicited information on types of aggression not previously studied in national surveys, including sexual violence other than rape, psychological aggression, coercion and control of reproductive and sexual health. They also gathered information about the physical and mental health of violence survivors. Sexual violence affects women disproportionately, the researchers found. One-third of women said they had been victims of a rape, beating or stalking, or a combination of assaults. The researchers defined rape as completed forced penetration, forced penetration facilitated by drugs or alcohol, or attempted forced penetration. By that definition, 1 percent of women surveyed reported being raped in the previous year, a figure that suggests that 1.3 million American women annually may be victims of rape or attempted rape. That figure is significantly higher than previous estimates. The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network estimated that 272,350 Americans were victims of sexual violence last year. Only 84,767 assaults defined as forcible rapes were reported in 2010, according to national statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But men also reported being victimized in surprising numbers. One in seven men have experienced severe violence at the hands of an intimate partner, the survey found, and one in 71 men between 1 percent and 2 percent have been raped, many when they were younger than 11. A vast majority of women who said they had been victims of sexual violence, rape or stalking reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, as did about one-third of the men. Women who had experienced such violence were also more likely to report having asthma, diabetes or irritable bowel syndrome than women who had not. Both men and women who had been assaulted were more likely to report frequent headaches, chronic pain, difficulty sleeping, limitations on activity, and poor physical and mental health. ŸeÃ×e seen this association with chronic health conditions in smaller studies before, said Lisa James, director of health for Futures Without Violence, a national nonprofit group based in San Francisco that advocates for programs to end violence against women and girls. űeople who grow up with violence adopt coping strategies that can lead to poor health outcomes, she said. Ÿe know that women in abusive relationships are at increased risk for smoking, for example. The survey found that youth itself was an important risk factor for sexual violence and assault. Some 28 percent of male victims of rape reported that they were first assaulted when they were no older than 10. Only 12 percent of female rape victims were assaulted when they were 10 or younger, but almost half of female victims said they had been raped before they turned 18. About 80 percent of rape victims reported that they had been raped before age 25. Rape at a young age was associated with another, later rape; about 35 percent of women who had been raped as minors were also raped as adults, the survey found. More than half of female rape victims had been raped by an intimate partner, according to the study, and 40 percent had been raped by an acquaintance; more than half of men who had been raped said the assailant was an acquaintance. The public release of the report was postponed twice, most recently on Nov. 28. The findings are based on completed interviews lasting about 25 minutes each; they were conducted in 2010 with 9,086 women and 7,421 men. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health/nearly-1-in-5-women-in-us-survey-report-sexual-assault.html?_r=1&hp

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Only in amreeka can people pretend to be ridiculously happy (just go look at the clubs on a Saturday night) and also ridiculously troubled (OMG - I haz a raped!, OMG, the gas prices are up by 10 cents, OMG – my unemployment benefit is not going to be extended..) :laugh: To be fair, this study is no laughing matter, especially for women. Sexual assault of women is a serious and growing problem.

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Only in amreeka can people pretend to be ridiculously happy (just go look at the clubs on a Saturday night) and also ridiculously troubled (OMG - I haz a raped!, OMG, the gas prices are up by 10 cents, OMG my unemployment benefit is not going to be extended..) :laugh: To be fair, this study is no laughing matter, especially for women. Sexual assault of women is a serious and growing problem.
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