Often women are more likely to feel their own behavior is somehow at fault, and thus will be afraid to take any action to make the man accountable for his violent behavior. Statistics indicate that sexual assault is not an impulsive act. Instead sexual assaults tend to be well-planned events. Clearly, sexual assault is not committed because of a need to find a sexual partner. The rapists' motive is to dominate, control, humiliate, or hurt someone.
Rapists usually choose women who look vulnerable.
According to Nicholas Groth, most men who rape have normal sexual personalities, differing from other men only in that they have a greater tendency to express violence. It is a common and more comfortable myth for white women and men to think of a potential attacker as a minority male. It is more difficult for them to see an attacker as a white professional. Yet women have been raped by doctors, lawyers, police officers and other white male authority figures. Because of their social and financial positions, these men are seldom prosecuted for their acts of violence.