Avedon Carol is an American-born feminist, , civil liberties campaigner and a researcher in the field of sex crime, residing in England. She observes -

"Although all existing evidence shows that actual rape rates have not increased since 1960, the moral right has successfully used higher rape reporting rates to con the populace into believing that society has become more violent, principally due to more openness about sexuality and the increasing refusal of women to be silenced. We were too cowed to talk about being sexually assaulted before the late 1960s; therefore, it did not happen."

Rape, like the poor, has always been with us Lizzie despite your continual insistence that everything was just so much better in your mythical past.
Women did just not report it as much as they were frequently met with the same sort of unsupportive
or even punitive attitudes you espouse.

'If you dress like a hooker, you'll be viewed as a hooker.'

Are you suggesting that prostitutes have no rights to be protected against sexual assault Lizzie?

Like the West Virginian Lawyer who, last year, failed to convince a jury that his 31 year old client who had been accused of a pattern of sexual assaults on 15-20 prostitutes during which he would threaten them with a knife and force them to have sex. Was innocent of rape as 'they are street tramps. And what happened to them was, at least in part, their fault'