Research on acquaintance rape indicates that
a. approximately 50% of women will experience acquaintance rape or some other form of sexual assault from an acquaintance, during their lifetime.
b. the majority of women who have been assaulted by an acquaintance—and whose experience meets the legal definition of rape—classify the experience as rape.
c. most claims of acquaintance rape are made by women who willingly had sex, but then regretted it later.
d. although acquaintance rape was relatively common in earlier decades, media attention to this problem has substantially decreased its incidence.
A
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