Health Affairs April 8, 2024
Decades of data on campus sexual assault show (again and again) that roughly 25 percent of college women experience a completed or attempted rape; among heterosexual men, the prevalence of campus sexual assault (rape, attempted rape, or unwanted touching) is around 7 percent. Newer work reveals that rates are much higher for sexual and gender minorities. There is a substantial body of research demonstrating adverse sequelae to experiences of assault, including harms to physical, social, and emotional well-being, along with considerable economic and academic disadvantages. These outcomes are long-lasting, shaping experiences across the lifecourse.
The reason sexual assault, particularly on campuses, is so common and its rate so unrelenting should be recognizable to the public health and medical communities: We...
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