Getting in a stranger's car, why am I so naive?

not only is it 'estimated', it's america. I wonder if they include prison rapes in that?
if we take this statistics for fact what do they mean? they mean a man has 1/10th the chance of a woman of getting raped when taking a lift from a stranger - so obviously, clearly, gender matters.

America isn't that different from us. Grr. I'm sure the link I have on my old computer was stats from England, but since I can't prove it we'll have to make do with these. I'd assume they would have included prison rapes in the stats (why would they not?) and they're not "incredibly miniscule" as you say in your other post - I'd imagine that they are vastly under-reported because of the stigma attached to male rape.

Anyway, the point I was trying to support with these was that male rape exists, and although it isn't as common as rape of women, anyone getting into a car with a stranger is putting themself at risk of some kind of crime against the person. I still think that point is intuitively obvious to anyone with a notion of common sense (did they not teach you this at primary school? I don't mean that in an insulting way, just that I can remember having police officers in to talk to our class and so on.)

But yet again, that's not what we're talking about. I was listing them as unnecessary risks. However, even if I wasn't, the risk of that from many years of smoking is high, but that's not what I said. The risk of doing something incredibly stupid or dying while on marijuana, cocaine, ecstacy or your other party drugs, is very very low. If you were trying to sound like a stuck up middle class ****, then congratulations you ****ing bore. But while doing so you still failed to prove what the OP did was either dangerous or wrong.

what, as opposed to the lack of stigma with female rape?

not only is it 'estimated', it's america. I wonder if they include prison rapes in that?

I wouldn't have thought the physical ability to defend oneself makes much difference when some psycho pulls out a knife and locks the car doors. You're giving the hypothetical criminal a lot of credit here - I doubt most would have their victims in a situation where it would be a fair contest between the two people's physical strength.

99% of the people commiting the rape are males?
1% are female? I never thought of females commiting rape.

I've got the British statistics somewhere, just did a 4000 word essay on male rape and the law... Bear with me a sec.

In 2003 there were 852 reported male rapes and 11,441 reported femle rapes, which I work out to be about 7%?

Home Office (2003) Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System, p.45 <http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/s95women03.pdf>

However, campaign groups suggest the actual number of cases is significantly higher. E.g. The Rape Crisis Coordinating Group <http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk/myths.html>

As for the stigma attached to male rape victims, of course it is higher. Not only is the masculinity of the victim questioned, his ability to defend himself etc it may also throw doubts upon his sexuality. Its not just gay men that get raped, and its not just gay men who rape other men either. I think the rapecrisis link I already posted has details of a study of the sexuality of offenders.

99% of the people commiting the rape are males?
1% are female? I never thought of females commiting rape.

Yeah women can't be perpetrators of rape. Has to be with a penis, legally, which presents difficulties. Otherwise it falls under the category of other sexual offences.

But as stated men couldn't be victims either until 1994 Which sucks.

Theres a lot of misunderstanding about rape in our society and its still taboo to talk about. Shame.