[lepton]

BTW, would like to point out that there are a number of reasons a woman might recant an accusation, such as being pressured or intimidated into doing. A recantation does not in and of itself prove the original accusation was false.

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Certainly, and a number of reasons for numbers to be a bit fuzzy..though probably not by huge percentages of the whole. Generally the proportions for false accusations are somewhere between a third to just under half. The roughly 42% I suggested is a fair center, and includes attempts to account for false recants.

Many of us have wives, sisters, daughters and mothers, and aren’t wont to tolerate mistreatment - especially of this sort.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Many of us have wives, sisters, daughters and mothers, and aren’t wont to tolerate mistreatment - especially of this sort.

Many of you also have sons. When do you start to defend them against the injustices they face?

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks for the response.

42% sounds a little high to me. I would lean more to somewhere between 20% and 30%, but must admit that’s based on little more than instinct.

I think the most honest thing to say is that probably 60% of reports of rape are entirely accurate. A rape occurred, though not necessarily by the person accused.

Perhaps 20% are indisputably false, with no rape occurring.

With the remaining 20% being impossible to determine one way or the other.

YMMV

I’ve never quite understood why liberals consider conservatives to be apologists for rape, when I’m cheerfully in favor of capital punishment for actual rapists.