Why R@pe is More Common Than You Think

This video is a narration of an article I wrote about the statistical frequency of rape, as reported by scientific studies. You can find it on my Medium here https://medium.com/@danielaaronlevy05 This description box isn't large enough for me to paste all the references in, so please check out the source page or my YouTube channel @Daniel Aaron Levy. Content Warning: This video discusses rape, sexual coercion, and may potentially negatively affect your view of the society you live in. This is not meant to be a pleasant video. I wrote it because I wanted to draw attention to the fact that r@pe rates are much, much higher than you might expect. R@pe is not a rare event happening when some crazed stranger jumps on a woman in the street in the dark. Most women are r@ped by someone they know, and the proportion of men who admit to having r@ped someone in surveys is also much, much higher than you'd expect.This isn't at all to try and paint some misandrist, generalising narrative about all men being evil. It's not to accuse male listeners in any way. It's just to point out that this IS an issue which is affecting your female relatives and friends, and to encourage you to talk to them about these kinds of experiences. Most of all, it's to gain an understanding that both men and women experience in the world in very different ways. Fear plays a very different role. But online, I don't think the algorithm shows men any kind of information on what things are REALLY like, and I don't think that's fair for men or for women. By being aware of the magnitude of this problem, we can all start making it better.Yet very few people ARE aware of these rates. This is wildly under-discussed by mainstream newspapers and other outlets. The only newspaper I could find which even discussed one of these sources was The Guardian. I want to use this article to warn against another danger: politicising r@pe rates. This cannot be something which is discussed by only newspapers of a certain leaning: everybody, regardless of their political orientation, has a right to know. This is not 'gender ideology' or 'wokeness' or anything like that, it's about whether your family and friends are safe. Discussions of sexual violence are not a left vs right issue, they're an everybody vs violence issue.