What We Knew About Date Rape Then, and What We Know Now
Women have long been reluctant to report their assaults.
President Donald Trump is among those who believe that if Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted by the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the early 1980s, and if the attack was “as bad as she says,” she would have told someone and a police report would have been filed. This view may seem intuitively correct to some, but the data—and there’s a lot of it—suggest otherwise.
Widespread public consciousness about date rape began not long after
