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Public opinion on the degree of responsibility of women who were raped in France 2015

Characteristic	They are in part responsible for being raped	They are not responsible for this vile thing, but it does lessen the rapist's responsibility	They are not responsible for the rape, and that does not diminish the rapist's responsibility
Women who agree to go alone to a stranger's house	15%	21%	64%
Women who were provocative in public (in a restaurant, in a nightclub)	14%	26%	60%
Teenage girls who have a seductive attitude towards adult males	13%	23%	64%
Women who flirted with the rapist but didn't want to have sex with him	12%	26%	62%
Women walking down the street in very sexy outfits (very short skirts, low necklines, etc.)	9%	18%	73%
Women who have previously had sexual relations with the person who raped them	8%	19%	73%

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Release date

December 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

November 25 to December 2, 2015

Number of respondents

1,001 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

* The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Personnellement, que pensez‐vous des femmes qui sont violées dans les situations suivantes?"

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This diagram shows us the public opinion on the degree of responsibility of women who were raped in France 2015. We can observe that 15 percent of the respondents believed that women who were raped are partly responsible for rape if they agreed going by themselves to a stranger's home.