Individualism or activism for health in hard times?

摘要

Secondly, the incidences of sexual violence that tend to grab headlines are the seemingly most atrocious and extreme in nature. Such cases typically involve stranger and/ or multiple assailants, especially depraved sex acts, brutal physical injuries and/or humiliating public violations which are often further exploited through social media. Although such appalling experiences are the reality for some, as evidenced in these latest high-profile rape cases, these types of assaults, relatively speaking, are rare. The data worldwide suggest that the overwhelming majority of sexual assaults are committed by a single male assailant, at least 65% of which are perpetrated by men known to the victims, often husbands, ex-husbands or common-law partners. ' Even in India, where the current narratives seem to suggest random multiple stranger attacks, according to the National Crime Records Bureau in 2011, of the 24 206 reported rapes in that country, 93% (22 549) were committed by someone the victim knew.7