Brutal assaults by strangers are unambiguous. But what should a woman do when she is the victim of an ‘almost rape’?
You know, one in five women are sexually assaulted,’ my stepfather told me. I was in middle school. The age where I listened to a lot of ‘angry-girl music’ – Tori Amos in particular. She had been raped at knifepoint when she was 21 after performing a show in Los Angeles. And that must have been how the subject came up. ‘That means that it’s likely one of the girls you’re friends with now will be raped at some point in her life.’