britain's rape crisis

85,000 rapes a year, this equals 232 rapes per day.

400,000 women sexually assaulted each year.

1 in 5 aged 16-59 have experienced sexual violence.

These statistics show there is definitely a rape culture in britain.

No, they don't. 85000 is 0.26 % of women. It's too many yes, but let's but that into perspective. There are 207000 incidents of robbery each year over 2 million cases of non-sexual violence ... I could go on.

what's your solution?

well if you put it like that then every country has a tiny percentage of the total amount of women raped.

but britain has one of the highest rape rates in the world 28 per 100,000 people.

so why does britain have one of the highest rape rates in the world?

Men need anti-rape education in school during lunchtime.

well if you put it like that then every country has a tiny percentage of the total amount of women raped.

but britain has one of the highest rape rates in the world 28 per 100,000 people.

so why does britain have one of the highest rape rates in the world?

'well if you put it like that then every country has a tiny percentage of the total amount of women raped' ... you mean in context? Yeh it becomes much less easy to scaremonger when doing that.

28 per 100,000 people. Okay so that puts us at 6th highest I believe? The rate is actually fairly similar throughout developed nations if we look at the stats, what becomes alarming is the distinctly low rates seen in some other nations. Let's take India. It has a reporting rate of 24,600 cases per year. Startlingly low, clearly it's a much safer place for women than the UK right? You can't draw conclusions like that because the statistics we have on reporting rate really can't be compared in any meaningful way.

The highest rate of reported incidents of rape is what you actually mean, which in its self could instead show that in Britain women are most able and most encouraged to be vocal about such incidents. We've identified the immorality of rape, identified that rape doesn't just occur in a park bush at night with the perpetrator being a conplete stranger and have the 'ideal' conditions for women to feek comfortable reporting it.

The least rapey culture in the world if one was to look at it like that.

first we need to ask why britain has one of the highest rape rates in the world at 28 per 100,000 people?

is it that there is a high amount of misogyny and sexism in Britain?

See what type of people are overrepresented in rape stats?

These people migrant to Britain and bring their barbaric cultural practices with them.

As it's been pointed out, that's only a very small percentage of women when compared to Britain's whole population. Far more people are burgled, mugged and assaulted (non-sexually) each year.

Also note that 'sexual assault' technically includes stalking and most forms of 'unwanted sexual contact', be it kissing or touching. Only 1 in 5 women experiencing this at least once since the age of 16 doesn't really sound that horrific when taken in context (as part of the bigger picture). Around 3-4 in 5 people are the victims of violent crimes in their lifetimes.

It's very easy to make numbers sound big and scary when the context isn't very clear (and when it's not compared to anything else). So, no; it's not evidence of 'rape culture'.