Silence and Sexual Assault Statistics

I write on the rhetoric of sexual assault and am using this as a note for myself since I am not at home with my work.

Lois Timnick, “22% in Survey Were Victims of Abuse,” Los Angeles Times, 25 August 1985, pp. 1, 34.

A large majority of all pregnant teenagers have histories of rape, sexual abuse, and physical abuse. A 1985 Los Angeles Times survey showed that 27% of all women and 16% of all men were sexually abused as children — nearly all by adults and half by “someone in authority.”

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Males, Mike. “Poverty, rape, adult/teen sex: Why `pregnancy prevention’ programs don’t work. Phi Delta Kappan 75.5 (January 1994): 407-411.

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