In an otherwise excellent piece in Saturday's National Post on the futility of prohibiting victimless crimes Terence Corcoran asks, rhetorically, if there are people who do not report rapes to the police.
In fact, there are.
While concrete statistics are notoriously hard to get, in a careful 2008 review Statistics Canada concluded only about one in ten sexual assaults were reported and that the reporting rate had fallen in the ten years prior to the review.
The report noted many unreported incidents were of sexual touching rather that forced intercourse however, on any analysis, the bulk of serious sexual assaults (including what would traditionally be described as rape) remained unreported.
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