Reply #121: A couple of things [View All]

[Recursion]

1. Those numbers don't seem too far off, just from the anecdotal data of my friends (and, if it matters to anyone, my answer was male/yes). Maybe I know about a lot of cases because I end up talking about it with my friends who have been through something like that whereas you often won't open up to somebody who hasn't. (More out of concern for not dragging them down into your hell than anything else.)

2. Remember a poll like this will attract respondants with some interest in the subject; someone with no connection to sexual abuse might be more likely to just look at the title and move on.

3. Again, just from my straw-poll anecdotal evidence of the people I know, 70% is about right for women (counting rape, serious sexual assault, and childhood sexual abuse), and 45% seems maybe a little high for men. Then again, I think for a lot of men who have not been abused, the subject is kind of 'invisible' to them and so they'd be less likely to respond (whereas men who have been sexually abused tend to become invisible to everyone else...)