In North America, one in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. In one study, 30 to 35 percent of men admit they would rape if they thought they could get away with it legally. In a poll of 22,000 women in Britain, 51 percent responded that they had woken to a partner having sex with them or performing sex acts on them. For many young women, violence has even become an expected part of consensual sex—if women aren’t willing to be choked or slapped or otherwise hurt, they are labeled “vanilla” and rejected.
