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Rape Essay written by Dan Esca Here is a number for you: 354,670. That is the number of women that were raped in 1995 (RAINN 1). That is equivalent of one woman being raped every two minutes (RAINN 1). Want more numbers? "In the last two years, more than 787,000 women were the victim of a rape or sexual assault" (RAINN 1). And one more statistic that might get your attention is that only 37% of rapes are reported to the authorities (…

…country will decline over time. And besides, that 1995 total of rapes 354,670 is 354,670 too many. Bibliography Works Cited Avery, Byllye and Rodriguez-Trias, Helen and Steinem, Gloria. 1992. Our Bodies Our Selves. http://www.gopher.uchicago.edu/70/00/ustudent/sexab/AcquaintanceRape/whatis Hughes, Jean O'Gorman. 1987. "Friends Raping Friends-Could It Happen to You? www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/aquaintRape.html#how http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/sigs/life/feminism/safety/rape RAINN http://feminist.com/rainn.htm