How I wish this board had a “Disagree” button!
@OhiBro Talk to any cop who works in a sex crimes unit. Want to know the #1 thing a woman can do to reduce the odds she’ll be raped? Cut her hair short. Wearing a ponytail boosts your odds of being raped significantly. Why? Because one of the most effective ways to overcome a woman is to grab her by the hair and use that hold to control her movements. Another problem? Big hoop or long dangling earrings. Again, wearing them makes you more vulnerable.
Indeed, since I am older than most on the board, I can tell you that there was advice to women demonstrating against the War in Vietnam to avoid pony tails and dangling earrings. If you had long hair and didn’t want to cut it, you were told to wear it up with a gazillion bobby pins in it so it would be harder for it to come down. It was the unfortunate reality that police used to grab pony tails and earrings to subdue -and sometimes intentionally hurt–female protestors.
If you think dressing conservatively will protect a woman, you might want to read a very enlightening series in the main Salt Lake City newspaper about sexual assault at Brigham Young University. The series won lots of journalism prizes. More importantly, it forced BYU to admit that sexual assault exists there. The first comprehensive survey of student experiences had a 43% response rate, which is unusually high. 6.5% of female students reported having unwanted sexual contact in the previous 12 months. 1.2% of males did. Of the unwanted sexual contacts reported by females, 19% involved penetration and 20% involved attempted penetration. https://magazine.byu.edu/article/byu-releases-findings-from-sexual-assault-survey/ and https://news.byu.edu/sites/default/files/Campus%20Climate%20Report_F2017.pdf Given BYU’s dress code–and that of LDS members generally–how likely do you think it is that the victims “dressed like prostitutes?”
BYU female students were less likely to report. Why? Because the first questions were always about what they did wrong which had caused the attack. After BYU admitted it had a problem and agreed to change its procedures, the # of reports doubled.
BTW, the report indicates that the victims reported that in 6% of cases the male assailant had been drinking and in 2% of cases the victim had. (LDS members are prohibited from drinking alcohol.)
Female victims reported that in 52% of the cases, the assailant was a male BYU students.
So, lets not make believe that if only young women didn’t drink and dress like prostitutes, there’d be no sexual assault.