One in 16 U.S. women’s first sexual experience was forced, new study finds

sexual assault, Uncategorized 1 Minute

by Rita Giordano,  The Philadelphia Inquirer

Updated: September 16, 2019

A disturbing new study based on federal data estimates that the first sexual intercourse experience for 1 in 16 American women was the result of physical force or coercion.

Even in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, some of the findings are shocking:

Published by Kathryn Quigley

Associate Professor of Journalism at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ

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