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A) Those weren't "links."
B) You're not putting up any actual numbers.
I absolutely agree with you. What you described in each of those excerpts was terrible. However, you have presented nothing factual comparing actual rape rates.
As I just pointed out, our own rate might very well be freakishly high. There's really nothing to suggest that more traditional societies are any worse.
For EXAMPLE Gathomas, jeez, I suppose there were NO rapes in Botswana in 2003! Holy SMOKES!!! :roll:
Rape at the national level, number of police-recorded offenses
Total count Rate per 100,000 population
Country/territory 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Kenya 1440 1365 1291 876 735 847 4.1 3.8 3.5 2.3 1.9 2.1
Mauritius 53 40 38 64 77 69 57 51 4.3 3.2 3.0 5.1 6.0 5.4 4.4 3.9
Mozambique 102 64 46 41 47 44 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Uganda 0 549 732 750 599 1536 619 709 2.0 2.0 2.6 2.6 2.0 4.9 1.9 2.1
Zimbabwe 3858 4997 4790 4967 4762 3186 30.6 39.7 38.1 39.6 38.2 25.6
Cameroon 451 555 592 580 447 2.7 3.2 3.4 3.2 2.4
Algeria 723 630 376 495 836 812 2.3 1.9 1.1 1.5 2.5 2.4
Morocco 618 453 475 1063 1215 1130 1507 2.1 1.5 1.6 3.5 3.9 3.6 4.8
Sudan 1189 2.9
Botswana 1754 1865 88.5 92.9
Lesotho 1797 1878 1777 85.3 88.3 82.7
Crap, you can't really make out the chart, but according to it, several countries had NO rapes at all for several years if you're going to go by THEIR statistics.