When you hear the word "rape," what do you think of? If you imagine a stranger jumping out of the bushes on a dark night and attacking someone, you are only partly right because most rapes are
             not committed by strangers, but by men who know their victims, who often have gone out with them previously and are supposedly their friends. This phenomenon is called "acquaintance" or "date" rape.
             However, there are five types of rape, which I will discuss. The over-all definition is Rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, achieved through force and without consent. The second is Forcible Rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with a female by force and against her will, or without her legal consent. Next is Date Rape also known as Acquaintance Rape, unlawful sexual intercourse that occurs in the context of the dating relationship or by someone you know. The fourth is Marital Rape, forcible sex between two people who are legally married. The Final is Gang Rape, which is when a group of men attack a defenseless or inebriated victim and force sexual intercourse against her will.
             Rape is a social problem, which requires subjective concerns- a significant number of people are being upset by these conditions. These subjective concerns are now so great that U.S women age 35 and under fear rape more than any other crime, and women of all ages restrict their activities because of the possibility of being rape.
             According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, as you can see in the first chart I handed out, in 1998 93,103 women were raped in the U.S out of 270,296,000. As seen on the 2nd chart I handed out in 1999 North Carolina had 2,100 rapes reported, but only 1,255 of them were actually charged according to the Sate Bureau of Investigation Report. 60 of them were between the ages of 1-10, 1,199 of them were within the ages of 11-24, 711 were between the ages 25-44; the 124 left were over the age of 45. In the past 10 years in the state of North Carolina r...