http://www.nationalreview.com/lukas/luk ... 270647.asp
The one-in-four statistic, she found, was derived from a survey of 3,000 college women in 1982. Researchers used three questions to determine if respondents had been raped: Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs? Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man threatened or used some degree of physical force... to make you? And, have you had sexual acts...when you didn't want to because a man threatened to use some degree of physical force... to make you?
Yet other data from that same survey undercut its conclusion. While alcohol surely plays a part in many rape cases, the survey's wording invites the label of rape victim to be applied to anyone who has ever drank too much, had a sexual encounter, and then regretted it later. In addition, only 25 percent of the women whom researchers counted as being raped described the incident as rape themselves. The survey found that four in ten of the survey's rape victims, and one in three victims of attempted rape, chose to have intercourse with their so-called attacker again. The survey researchers scratched their heads as to why these women would return to their attackers, but Sommers asks the obvious question: "Since most women the survey counted as victims didn't think they had been raped, and since so many went back to their partners, isn't it reasonable to conclude that many had not been raped to begin with?"
Correcting for the biases in the original survey yields a radically different picture of the prevalence of rape in America. Subtract the women identified by the alcohol and drug question and those who didn't think they had been raped, and total victims fall to between 3 and 5 percent of the women surveyed. This remains an alarmingly high number, but significantly less alarming than the one-in-four figure.
The study that led to the one in four women raped had large numbers of women who did not even know they had been raped.
If the woman who had been raped did not even know she had been raped, how is it we expect the men knew they raped the woman?
It is unimaginable that the most heinous crime in the world is one in which the assailant and the victim are often unaware the crime had occurred and continued to have the most intimate relations possible in the future.
the research is done to exclude male victims and then we find there are few male victims (sound familiar?)
in domestic violence research, the same research bias exists. the assumption that males are the perps and women the victims still pervades the approaches not just of victims and perps, but also of law enforcement, the criminal justice system, etc.