• An estimated 1 million rapes or attempted rapes occur annually in the United States: 876,000 in women and 111,000 in men, meaning that 1 in 6 women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.
  
  
• Most rapes are never reported to either the police or healthcare providers, with adolescents and males the least likely to report.
  
  
• The majority of males who rape males are not homosexual and the majority of males who are raped are not homosexual.
  
  
• Youths and adolescents are sexually assaulted in disproportionate numbers compared to the population
  
  
• A reported 22% of women are raped by strangers, 29% by acquaintances, 9% by ex-husbands, 11% by stepfathers, 10% by boyfriends, and 16% by other relatives.
  
  
• Victims who know their assailant are less likely to report the crime or receive medical care.

Information from "Quick-Reference Sexual Assault by Giardino, Datner, Asher, Girardin, Faugno, and Spencer

Why Victims Don't Report

• Fear of being blamed
  
• Fear of family, friends, and others finding out
• Fear of the assault being made public by the media
• Fear of retaliation
• Perceived shame or stigma associated with being the victim of a sexual assault
• Victim does not fit into the "classic" definition of a rape victim as a woman raped by a stranger

If You Are A Victim

• Get to a safe place.
• Do not shower, bathe, wash your hands, brush your teeth, use the toilet or clean up in any way. You could destroy evidence.
• Do not change or destroy clothing. Your clothes are evidence.
• If it was in your home, do not rearrange and/or clean up anything. You could destroy evidence.
• Get medical attention as soon as possible. (Evidence should be collected when you get to the hospital.)
• Contact a friend or family member you trust or call the local rape crisis center hotline.
• Notify and report to law enforcement.
• Most of all, know this is not your fault.