Rape and other sexual assault crimes may also involve underage or incompetent victims. One out of every eight adult women in the U.S. have been raped every 10 minutes, another 13 women are raped. Rape only happens to single women who aren't careful. A common theme in soap operas is the story of a man raping a woman and the woman then falling in love with him. Also, many movies portray the successful man as one who will grab the woman, kiss her forcibly, then take her off to bed all without asking consent or allowing a choice.
Women ask for it.
Stereotypes are used to reinforce this myth. Only pretty or young women are sexually assaulted. Older women, obese women, women with severe physical disabilities, all are examples of women who may not be believed because they don t live up to certain standards of attractiveness. Women shouldn t have or enjoy sexual activity, so if they had sexual relationships prior to the rape they may be labeled promiscuous. Even in this era, women are expected to abstain from sexual activity before marriage and to limit it to their husbands afterwards.