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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that possible?<\/p>\n

The CDC\u2019s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that, in the United States in 2010, approximately 1.3 million women were raped and an additional 12.6 million women and men were victims of sexual violence. It reported, \u201cMore than 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced rape, physical violence and\/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.\u201d . . .<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s figures are wildly at odds with official crime statistics. The FBI found that 84,767 rapes were reported to law enforcement authorities in 2010. The Bureau of Justice Statistics\u2019 National Crime Victimization Survey, the gold standard in crime research, reports 188,380 rapes and sexual assaults on females and males in 2010. Granted, not all assaults are reported to authorities. But where did the CDC find 13.7 million victims of sexual crimes that the professional criminologists had overlooked?<\/p>\n

\nIt found them by defining sexual violence in impossibly elastic ways and then letting the surveyors, rather than subjects, determine what counted as an assault. Consider: In a telephone survey with a 30 percent response rate, interviewers did not ask participants whether they had been raped. Instead of such straightforward questions, the CDC researchers described a series of sexual encounters and then they determined whether the responses indicated sexual violation. A sample of 9,086 women was asked, for example, \u201cWhen you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people ever had vaginal sex with you?\u201d A majority of the 1.3 million women (61.5 percent) the CDC projected as rape victims in 2010 experienced this sort of \u201calcohol or drug facilitated penetration.\u201d\n

What does that mean? If a woman was unconscious or severely incapacitated, everyone would call it rape. But what about sex while inebriated? Few people would say that intoxicated sex alone constitutes rape \u2014 indeed, a nontrivial percentage of all customary sexual intercourse, including marital intercourse, probably falls under that definition (and is therefore criminal according to the CDC).<\/p>\n

Other survey questions were equally ambiguous. Participants were asked if they had ever had sex because someone pressured them by \u201ctelling you lies, making promises about the future they knew were untrue?\u201d All affirmative answers were counted as \u201csexual violence.\u201d Anyone who consented to sex because a suitor wore her or him down by \u201crepeatedly asking\u201d or \u201cshowing they were unhappy\u201d was similarly classified as a victim of violence.<\/p>\n

via CDC study on sexual violence in the U.S. overstates the problem \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the CDC researchers are sensing that all extra-marital sex has an element of exploitation about it, but since moral absolutes must be left out of the equation, they are instead trying to employ secular legalisms and the feminist ideology that says women are always being oppressed by men.\u00a0 But that does not excuse\u00a0 \u201cconstructing\u201d data like this.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"