All women know not to go out alone or walk alone, especially at night. We also know better than to interact with men if we don't want to pursue it. We are taught to dress differently so as not to attract a man. We are taught to have a ride, and let someone know where you're going and what time you plan on arriving home. These routine precautions are a good idea, but they aren't addressing the real problem. The real problem is acquaintance rape, even though

most people when they visualize rape, they visualize a stranger in a dark alley waiting to pounce. This is obviously not the case.

Most rape occurs to college age women. Therefore we must look at the question, why do college men rape? The first reason college men rape is stereotypical views of women's sexual behavior. Men think women always want sex, and they also think "no means yes". Another reason is male sexist attitudes, which simply means nothing counts but "scoring". Alcohol is used as a tool of conquest. Alcohol is used as an excuse to rape. Most men are unaware that having sex with an intoxicated person is rape. And the last reason is the support men get from their peers for sexually abusive behaviors. How many times have you heard a guy telling a story about a girl he had sex with and all the other men around are very accepting, even if the story entails violence?

There are many precautions that can be taken to prevent acquaintance rape, but implementing programs is not the only thing to be done. It is mostly

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