WHY IS CONSENT SO IMPORTANT and what are the facts?

   As many as 798,000 women are raped or sexually assulted every year! 

That's 1 in 30 women. So, probably at least one woman you know was raped or sexually assaulted in the last 12 months.

*This figure is for the year ending March 2022.

 1 in 3 women

Have been raped or sexually assaulted as an adult

(6.54 million women in total)

1 in 18 men 

have been raped or sexually assaulted as an adult

(1.34 million men in total)

  Approximately 70% of rape or sexual      assault victims experience moderate to severe distress, this is a larger percentage than any other violent crime.

1 in 3 adults who are raped, takes place in their own home.

Researchers have found that more than a third, 33% of women who are raped have contemplated suicide at some point after their assault, and 13% have attempted suicide.

1 in 2 adult survivors of rape, have experienced it more than once.

51% of people who have been a victim of revenge porn have contemplated suicide.

   1 in 6 children 

have been sexually abused

   9 in 10 girls and young women in schools say: Sexist name-calling and being sent unwanted 'explicit images' or other images of a sexual nature happens to them or other girls and young women their age.

   67,169 

rapes were recorded in 2022. 

By the end of the year, charges has been brought in just 1,276 (1.9%) of these cases.

Less than 2 in 100 rapes recorded by police in 2022 resulted in a charge that same year.

Let alone a conviction.

But most survivors don't even report it to the police.

5 in 6 women who are raped do not report, and 4 in 5 men report.

Therefore the horrific statistics we are already aware of, are only a small portion of how often this type of crime happens.

Who carries out rape and other sexual offences?

Rapes against women...

6 in 7 rapes are carried out by someone they know.

And, 1 in 2 are carried    

out by their partner or ex-partner.

98% of adults who are prosecuted for sexual offences are men.

SOURCES

Rapecrisis.org.uk

endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk

ons.gov.uk

gov.uk

2023/2024