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The extraordinary prevalence of sexual violence in the United States gets little attention.
See the CDC study of sexual violence in the United States:
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

Rape

Nearly 1 in 5 women in the United States has been raped in her lifetime (18.3%)... This translates to almost 22 million women in the United States.
Approximately 1 in 71 men in the United States (1.4%) reported having been raped in his lifetime, which translates to almost 1.6 million men in the United States

Sexual Violence Other than Rape

Nearly 1 in 2 women (44.6%) and 1 in 5 men (22.2%) experienced sexual violence victimization other than rape at some point in their lives. This equates to more than 53 million women and more than 25 million men in the United States. Approximately 1 in 20 women (5.6%) and men (5.3%) experienced sexual violence victimization other than rape in the 12 months prior to taking the survey.

Incidence

51% of women were raped by their current or former intimate partner, 12.5% by a family members