There are many ways to win in this World, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it. It is devastating to know that when you are in a room, nearly half of them men and women in the room have been forced to have sex. While the legal definition of rape varies from state to state, most states have laws that define rape as sexual intercourse occurring under the actual or threatened forcible compulsion that overcomes the serious and honest resistance of the victim. We are concerned about how many journalists have been raped by a coworker or photographer because you people work alone with your photographers often, and in isolated areas, at unusual hours, and it is possible that someone has been raped and is not speaking up. It is possible that these concerns have been brought to the attention of your legal department, but you were threatened by union staff that if you speak up, they will have you arrested, sue you, or make it so that you cannot work again. Rape can range anywhere from the violent assault by a stranger, to a planned romantic date that devolves into coerced sex. What these acts have in common is a disregard of the feeling of victims and a willingness to take advantage of and, often, to harm them. There are usually three different types of rape. Stranger rape, which is rape by an unknown assailant; acquaintance rape (date rape) is committed by someone known to the victim. Statutory rape is intercourse with a person under the age of consent (usually 18) or having consensual sex with someone is mentally disabled.  If an individual is incompetent, they cannot consent. Despite the fact that rape is a significant problem, it has been difficult to obtain accurate statistics on its frequency. And 97 percent of rapists have never been sent to prison, but 50 percent of rape claims have been deemed as false accounts.

 One of the reasons is that many individuals do not report when they are raped, and men and women are both often raped. It is reported that 38 percent of men have been raped, and 40 percent of women have been raped. That is alarming that at any time, half of the people you look at have been forced to have sex. Some people think that real rapes are only violent attacks, but that is not the case. This definition includes victims who were forced to penetrate someone else with their own body parts, either by physical force or coercion, or when the victim was drunk or high or otherwise unable to consent. When those cases were taken into account, the rates of non-consensual sexual contact basically equalized, with 1.270 million women and 1.267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence. 54 percent of men have been raped by other men, and 88 percent of women have been raped by men. However, women and especially men do not report being raped because they are embarrassed, fear they will not be taken seriously, fear reprisal by the offender or his or her family, and are concerned about unwanted publicity may deter individuals from reporting rapes. It just blows my mind that someone would get you drunk, assault you and seriously hurt you, then take advantage of you. Then the rapist walks around like they own the World and did nothing wrong. There are so many drawbacks to regard and intimacy, from pride, from property, and various other collateral causes, that rarely as we meet with people of brilliant parts, there is almost ever some objection to our desire of meeting them again.