New Study Finds Why The Majority Of Sexual Assault Survivors Don't Fight Back
“I couldn’t move. My body just shut down.” “I froze.” When reporting rape, survivors often recall feeling paralyzed: Aware of what was happening but unable to stop it, because their limbs just wouldn’t cooperate. A new study out of...Why 89% Of Colleges Reporting No Sexual Assaults Is A Bad Thing
Contradicting the reality of campus sexual assault, nearly 90% of colleges reported zero incidents of rape in 2015, according to data newly released by the U.S. Department of Education. About 11,000 institutions disclosed their most recent annual crime reports, as...87% Of Women 18-25 In The US Have Experienced Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is rife in the U.S., with 87 percent of young women in the U.S. having experienced it, according to a new report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among the 18- to 25-year-old women surveyed, the vast majority had been sexually harassed,...Everything We Know About False Rape Accusations Is WRONG
False rape accusations loom large in the cultural imagination. We don’t forget the big ones: The widely-read 2014 Rolling Stone article, later retracted, about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia; the 2006 accusations against innocent members of the Duke...