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Despite the Women’s Movement, sexual victimization con-tinues at an alarming rate in the United States. Longitudinal evidence suggests that one in eight adult women are victim-ized by rape (D’Amora & Burns-Smith, 1999), and national surveys reveal that approximately 18 % of women in the United States have experienced rape or attempted rape (Tiaden & Thoennes, 1998). It has been estimated that one in four women have experienced rape or attempted rape while in college (Fischer, Cullen, & Turner, 2000) and that 20 % of adolescent women have been sexually abused by a date (Silverman, Mucci, & Hatha, 2001). Additional research suggests that between 50 % and 85 % of women are likely to be maltreated by men (e.g., sexually harassed, the victim of obscene phone calls, or stalked; Gelfand, Fitzgerald, &amp