Is date rape increasing?
It is difficult to monitor something if it has no name. Before the mid 1970s, sexual harassment had no name, it existed but the language to name it did not exist. Since that time, there has been a growing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment. The same is true of the different ‘types’ of rape. Although we would argue that rape is rape, being able to name the context of the rape is often helpful for women to recognise and identify the abuse they experience as rape.
