Every minute in America there are 1.3 rapes of women. 178 women are raped each hour in America. 1,871 women in America are forcibly raped each day. It is estimated that one out of every seven married women has been forced to have sex with her husband. American women are more likely to be assaulted and injured, raped or killed by a current or ex-partner than by all other types of assailants combined.
Spousal rape is often more violent and repetitive than other rape, and it is less commonly reported.
The rate of sexual assault in the United States is the highest of any industrialized nation in the world. Police are more likely to take a formal report if the offender was a stranger, rather than an intimate, relative, or acquaintance. Women between the ages of 16 and 24 were three times more likely to be raped than women in other age cohorts. Forty-three percent of rapes by strangers occurred in an open area or public place. Almost one-third of sexual assault victims suffer from rape trauma syndrome at some point.