(June 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: It's easy to assume that dressing more conservatively might lower a woman's odds of being raped, but I am unaware of any reason to believe that's true. Are most rapists motivated by the way his victim looks? I doubt that they are, but I don't know the statistics... or if there even are any.
Asking women not to dress provocatively in order to be safer from rapists... seems like a form of Pascal's Wager.
I don't know the statistics I just know that people get aroused by visual stimulus, and you can't rape without being aroused.
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