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The reported incidence of non-stranger rape is not uncommon, yet socially the concept remains ambiguous and largely unrecognised. A recent study found that college women reported engaging in more precautionary behaviours due to fear of stranger rape than acquaintance rape1. Furthermore, there is a tendency for people to fail to recognise non-consenting sexual intercourse following consenting pre-coital sexual activity between two ‘dating’ acquaintances as rape2. This results in what is termed as secondary victimisation. People may think date rape is trivial but, in fact, a recent study examining date rape found that there are detrimental consequences for victims, including trauma symptoms and lower sexual self-esteem than women who had not experienced date rape3. Therefore, considering the effects of date rape on its victims it is necessary to recognise non-stranger rape as a serious social problem, and expand on the relatively small amount of research conducted in the area.
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Willan, VJ., Pollard, P. (2001). Males acquaintance rape proclivity. In: Martinez, M. (eds) Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6238-9_27
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