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That number comes from the FBI.

I agree it feels very low - the UK has something like 90,000 rapes per year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20982105

> The Independent uses its front page to highlight what it describes as the justice system's failure to protect women - and men - from sexual assault. It reports that research by the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics suggests that about 1,000 rapists are convicted every year despite up to 95,000 people being subjected to rape.

(about 12,000 of those (or maybe as well) are male victims.)




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