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  • Are American college campusesrape cultures?” Are they dangerous places where sexual assaults

  • against women are happening at an alarming rate?

  • According to many gender activists, academics and politicians, the answer is yes.

  • Here’s what the Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden, said in 2014.

  • We know the numbers: one in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off

  • for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted,

  • will be assaulted in her college years.”

  • Let’s take a closer look at the Vice President’s claim.

  • Rape is a horrific crime, and rapists are rightfully despised. We have strict laws against

  • sexual assault that everyone wants to see enforced. But, while rape is certainly a very

  • serious problem, there is simply no evidence of a national campus rape epidemic, and there’s

  • certainly no evidence that sexual violence is a “cultural normin 21st century America.

  • In fact, rates of rape in the US are very low and theyve been declining for decades.

  • Why would it be any different on a college campus? Where, then, does the 1 in 5 rate

  • that Vice President Biden cites come from? Well, it turns out it comes from a study conducted

  • over the Internet at two large universities, one in the Midwest and one in the South.

  • The survey was anonymous, no one’s claims were verified and terms were not clearly defined.

  • In round numbers a total of 5000 women participated. Based on their responses, the authors,

  • not the participants, determined that 1000 had been victims of some type ofnon-consensual

  • or unwanted sexual contact.”

  • And voila! From one vaguely worded, unscientific survey we suddenly arrive at “a rape culture

  • on college campuses.” Tellingly, the study authors have since explicitly stated that

  • it isinappropriateto use their survey to make that claim.

  • Much more comprehensive data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) estimates

  • that about 1 in 52.6 college women will be victims of rape or sexual assault over the

  • course of four years. That’s far too many, but it’s a long way from 1 in 5.

  • The same BJS data also reveal that women in college are safer from rape than college-aged

  • women who are not enrolled in college.

  • But the truth doesn’t serve the purposes of feminist activists or vote-seeking politicians.

  • Lies work much better. And the 1 in 5 claim is tantamount to a lie. Here are just a few

  • examples of what this lie has wrought. At Scripps College, Pulitzer-Prize winning

  • commentator George Will was disinvited from giving a speech. The reason?

  • He had dared to question therape culturemantra in a column he wrote.

  • At the all-women Wellesley College, students demanded that the administration remove a

  • campus sculpture of a sleepwalking man wearing only underpants. Why? Well, because the image

  • of a nearly naked male couldtriggermemories of sexual assault for victims.

  • According to Harvard Law professor, Jeannie Suk, students now ask teachers not to include

  • questions about rape law on exams for fear that such disturbing questions might cause

  • them to perform less well.

  • And at Brown University, students were so traumatized by a debate on the subject of

  • campus sexual assault that activists organized a “safe roomequipped with coloring books,

  • Play-Doh, calming music, and a video of frolicking puppies.

  • No less absurd are the attempts by colleges and legislators to cure this non-existent plague.

  • In California and New York, students now have to live by so-calledAffirmative

  • Consentlaws. The California law says that affirmative consent by all parties must be

  • ongoing throughout a sexual activity,” while the New York law says thatsilence

  • or lack of resistance, in and of itself, does not demonstrate consent.”

  • Confused? Pity the poor college students who have to figure this out. If it wasn’t so

  • serious, it would be laughable. But it’s not funny to a growing number of young men

  • who find themselves accused of sexual assault, publicly shamed and then brought before campus

  • judicial panels that are guided by rape-culture theory. In such proceedings, due process is

  • an afterthought: it’s guilty because accused.

  • But here’s the best way to prove that the 1 in 5 number is phony. Ask yourself this question:

  • Would you send your daughter to a place for four years where there was a twenty

  • percent chance she would be raped or sexually assaulted?

  • Of course not.

  • Good rarely, if ever, comes from lies. The one in fiverape culturelie is no exception.

  • I’m Caroline Kitchens of the American Enterprise Institute for Prager University.

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