South Africa has what is probably the highest rape rate in the world–a reported 120 per 100,000 population with prob-ably many more rapes unreported. The US rate is about 35 per 100,000. South African men appear to have a rather ca-sual attitude towards rape. In a survey of more than 27,000 young men and women, 80 percent of the men said they thought women were responsible for being raped. Thirty percent thought women who were raped were “asking for it” and 20 percent thought women enjoy being raped. One in four of the men said they had raped at least one woman before they turned 18. (One in Four S. African Men Admit Rape–Sur-vey, Reuters, June 25, 2000.)
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