This is horrifying and no surprise.

"The study’s author, Laura Hawks, a research fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance, told NPR that the number — one in 16 women, or an estimated 3.3 million women nationwide — is likely “just the tip of the iceberg.”

"The study, which included 13,310 American women ages 18 to 44, looked at data from the National Survey of Family Growth, an annual survey conducted by the CDC, which asks women about their first sexual experience, among other questions.

“You can imagine that if we asked this of women of all ages, the absolute number would be many millions higher,” Hawks said."

"The study is full of distressing details, including the finding that the average age of the women at the time of their assault was reported as 15. The average age of their partner or assailant was reported as 27 — which, Hawks noted, suggests a “major power discrepancy.”

"More than 26 percent of women said they were physically threatened during the encounter, and 46 percent said they were physically held down. Fifty-six percent of women said they were verbally pressured into having sex, while 16 percent of women said their partner threatened to end the relationship if they didn’t have sex."

[thecut.com]