• Velma@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    Rivalarrival said that this doesn’t say anything about rape:

    Of the pregnant teenagers had had an unwanted sexual experience, the ages of the perpetrators were:

    o 18% were within two years of the victim’s age

    o 18% were 3-5 years older than the victim

    o 17% were 6-10 years older than the victim

    o 40% were more than ten years older than the victim (Gershenson et. al., 1989)

    You can pretend like all of the teenagers in the study are 18 and 19 years old, but I would counter that would be a faulty assumption.

    Adult men having sex with underage children is rape.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      5 days ago

      What we can say from this data is that 100% of the cases it studies are rape. This data does not count all rapes: It counts only those rapes that have resulted in pregnancy. It doesn’t count all teenage pregnancies: It doesn’t count a case where two adolescents agree to have sex, and that sex results in pregnancy.

      This particular data does not even support a claim that adults are having sex with children! That’s the problem I am talking about. You have to go outside this data to make any meaningful conclusion. That is how terrible this data is.