The disturbing truth is that the figures have not diminished. That our culture enables rape is not just shown by the numbers-the outbreak of allegations against serial rapists from Bill Cosby to Harvey Weinstein and the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, a man who was recorded bragging about sexual assault, have further amplified this horrifying truth. Thirty years later, we now have a wealth of statistics on rape. Warhsaw based her reportage on the first large-scale study into rape ever, conducted by Ms.

In 1988, Robin Warshaw wrote I Never Called It Rape, the ground-breaking book that revealed a staggering truth: 25% of women were the victims of rape or attempted rape. Over 80% of these women knew their assailants. It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance rape but to all those caught in its net.”- Philadelphia Inquirer Koss, PH.D., as well as an updated resources section. A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term acquaintance rape and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today-now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P.

I Never Called It Rape by Robin Warshaw