More than half of the women reported had some sort of sexual related assault. I never knew sexual assault was that bad or even happened to many women. If I were to guess the number one risk factor of sexual assault, it would be consumption of alcohol. The results came to a conclusion that “almost half of the most serious assaults involved alcohol consumption, and was common for the woman and the perpetrator both to drink alcohol” (155). This result didn’t surprise me at all because I have witnessed it plenty of times. I can relate with the fact that 20 year olds are the average age of assault owing the fact that most of my friends that are my age or people that I know about, drink. What caught my attention was “ninety-five percent of the sexual assaults were committed by someone the woman knew,” in my mind I figured it would be a stranger committing the assault (155). These results have opened my eyes over how often sexual assault is …show more content…
I can agree with this statement because I’m going through that stage at the moment. People my age want to go out and have fun. At this time of age there’s people wanting to enjoy the college life, going out with friends, working in areas with people with similar interests, and getting their own place. What had me thinking was that the assaulter was the partner in the relationship. I guess I could see this happening. An example would be that the woman in the relationship feels like she is obligated to satisfy the man in the relationship. Or it could be that the couple starts doing sexual things and the male then interprets it sex as the next move. Last but now least the prototypic sexual assault normally took place at the man’s home. I could also agree with this statement for a couple reasons. A reason would be that I don’t think a male would act the same if he were in the woman’s home because he doesn’t know the place as well as he knows his. That being said the man would have control over everything if it were in his home because he would feel like there should be nothing to worry about. Although it all correlates with the age, partner, and location, I am