• Eighty-four percent of all sexual assaults are committed by an acquaintance of the victim, and 57% of all sexual assaults occur during a date. (1)
  
  
• One in three girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18. (2)
  
  
• In 1990, about 5,600 cases of sexual harassment were filed with the EEOC, up 27% since 1986. (3)
  
  
• The National Victim Center found that 683,000 adult women were sexually assaulted in 1990 -- 78 rapes per hour, 1.3 rapes per minute, 1,871 rapes per day. (4)
  
  
• A national study of sexual aggression on college campuses revealed that 25% of college women are victims of rape or attempted rape; over half have suffered some form of sexual victimization. (5)
  
  
• Research has established that alcohol is widely associated with rape and that violent pornography supports and perpetuates cultural norms that promote rape. (6)
  
  
• Data from the National Survey of Children reveal that approximately one in five young women ages 17 and under who have had intercourse were forced at least once to do so. (7)
  
  
• Adolescents with a history of childhood sexual abuse are significantly more likely to engage in later alcohol and drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and criminal behavior than other adolescents. Studies have shown that a significant percentage of rapists and pedophiles were sexually abused in childhood. (8)
  
  
• Major survey findings indicate that sexual harassment is pervasive in secondary schools, affecting over 85% of female students; that two out of three incidences occur in public places; and that students have difficulty getting help. (9)
  
  

(1) Warshaw, Robin. I Never Called It Rape, Harper and Row, 1988.

(2) Russell, Diana E.H., "The Incidence and Prevalence of Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse of Female Children," in Handbook on Sexual Abuse of Children, edited by Lenore E.A. Walker, Springer Publishing Company, 1988.

(3) McKinney, Kathleen. "Harassment." Sexual Coercion. Lexington Books, 1991.

(4) National Victim Center. Rape in America. 1991.

(5) Koss, et al. (1987) Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55: 162-170.

(6) Mantak, (1995) Journal of Public Health Policy, Spring: 13-28.

(7) Moore et al. (1989) Family Planning Perspectives, 21: 110-114.

(8) Burgess et al. (1987) American Journal of Psychiatry, 144 (11): 1421-1436; and Freund et al. (1990) Archives of Sexual Behavior, 19; 557-568.

(9) Stein (1995) Harvard Educational Review 65 (2): 145-162.