Rape Escape Options:
Overview

Rape Escape options have come a long way in the last few decades. Women were once taught to always surrender to avoid injury. Today, experts consider such one-dimensional advice outdated because it reflected society’s regard of any woman as being helpless against any man. From Outsmarting a Rapist in Victims-Options-Outsmarting to Rape-Escape-Options-Ultimate, you'll discover powerful options you never knew you had.

A burglar, Dwight Coverson, removed his pants and leapt into the bed of a sleeping Curtescine Lloyd in Edwards, Mississippi. He punched and threatened to kill the middle-aged nurse unless she submitted to rape. Instead, she grabbed his penis with one hand, his testicles with the other and wrenched them in opposite directions. He screamed and pummeled her some more but she refused to let go. ... Withering, he began begging her to release him. She refused. They continued struggling as she led him to her front door. Forcing him to unlock the door, she shoved him outside half naked. The police found his pants with his nametag on her bedroom floor. They found him at his home, bemoaning his bruised genitalia.
Paraphrased from Chicago’s syndicated newspaper columnist Mike Royko – 1992

Roughly 20 percent of American women report a sexual assault at some time in their lives, according to the Department of Justice. But these are only a fraction of all sex crimes, since most are never reported.

Acquaintances of the victim commit roughly 85 percent of all rapes. Most of these are date rapists (see Women-Safety-Date-Rape), but might be any acquaintance – possibly with delusions that the victim secretly desires him. Surprise and confusion might inhibit the victim from seriously hurting him to allow rape escape or reporting someone she knows, so few acquaintance rapes are reported to police. In all, rapists average seven victims before their first arrest.

Two Basic Methods Of Stranger Attack
Outdoor-Safety-Force-Predators trap and attack. Outdoor-Safety-Friendly-Predators first lure – then trap and attack. Victims are often trusting, easy prey for a friendly predator’s lures (described throughout Crime-Safety-Security.com, especially Wolf in Sheep's Clothing in Criminal-Minds-Wolf). A friendly predator strives to appear normal. You'd never suspect him by judging his looks or behavior. It's not until he springs his trap that you learn the truth. To facilitate rape escape, ignore his clever lies and instead watch for his underlying intent: to get you alone in a secluded place or into his car – that is your tip-off.

[Multiple rapes ("gang," "party," or "pack") are usually an escalation of a mob-mentality. Oftentimes, stopping the first one stops them all (see Surviving the Worst at Survival-Options-Worst).]

Delusions

At one point, a serial rapist apparently believed that he could win the heart of one of his victims after his attack. He later confessed that he planned to take out a personal advertisement asking to meet her for a date.
Excerpted from The Philadelphia Inquirer – 02 June 2002

"A large portion of rapists actually hope that halfway through the rape, the woman is going to look up and say, 'You are the greatest, and we're going to run off into the sunset and live happily ever after.' Now that's just not your normal way to go out and try to impress a woman. That's just not going to happen. But since it didn't happen this time, the fantasy has got to continue. And the cycle continues. Maybe the next one, or the next one, or the next one. Where do you end? Where do you end?"
Chicago Police Captain Tom Cronin – an FBI-trained profiler – interviewed by author Connie Fletcher in "What Cops Know."

Personal Safety Devices

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Learn all about Women's Personal Safety Tips

Also see Women-Safety-Overview and Women-Safety-Date-Rape.

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