Here, in the pages of I Never Called It Rape, I can have a conversation with my college self: she wrote—not a lot—in purple pen, scratching asterisks next to the things that mattered most to her. One in four female respondents had an experience that met the legal definition of rape or attempted rape and . . . the average age when a rape incident occurred (either as perpetrator or victim) was 181/2 years old and [Women] were embarrassed about the details of the rape (leaving a bar with a man, taking drugs, etc.) and felt they would be blamed for what occurred, or they simply felt the men
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