maybe "not a typo" but some caveats...
1) rape & coerced sex are lumped together, w/coercion defined as sex after someone lied, "made false promises, threatened to end the relationship, wore the victim down through repeated requests, or exerted their influence or authority"
1) rape & coerced sex are lumped together, w/coercion defined as sex after someone lied, "made false promises, threatened to end the relationship, wore the victim down through repeated requests, or exerted their influence or authority"
2) definition of rape here includes "any completed or attempted sex" after "the giving of drugs or alcohol to the victim" (*not* incapacitation via drugs/alcohol)
3) sexual assault definition includes unwanted comments & flashing
4) survey was small: 148 women
3) sexual assault definition includes unwanted comments & flashing
4) survey was small: 148 women
here's a writeup of the study, since neither it nor any data were linked in the Seattle Times story scribd.com/document/38694…
This certainly isn't to discount the issues of homelessness, sexual violence, harassment, survival sex, etc., addressed here. But nobody is serviced by fake catastrophe-stats that obscure the real problems
(since the tweet I linked here was deleted, & people are still sharing this, here's the original tweet & the story it promoted: seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…) 
