Would a woman ever falsely accuse somebody of rape?

[Cleita]

48. I never knew one who did, but it seems to have been done at times in the past in the

South when a white woman got pregnant by a black man. Some women would say they were raped because at the time sex between the races was forbidden. Also, if a woman was brutally gang raped and couldn't identify her attackers, often it was blamed on black or hispanic men even though not true. As far as sex that could have been forcible but there is no proof, it unfortunately does fall into the category of he said, she said. Often this is why women won't report date rape because it blurs into something that would make what happened after the rape almost as bad as the rape itself and there would be no real proof.

I had a friend who had a somewhat slutty reputation, nothing she denied. She slept with different men, like one night stands, willingly. She was raped by a married man, and she knew his wife. He raped her because of her slutty reputation. She didn't want to report it because she figured by the time lawyers got through going through her past she wouldn't have a case anyway. She did tell his wife though and that ended the marriage so she got closure of some sort.