If you find yourself being assaulted by a predator you should always resist and fight back. Attackers are looking for an easy target and you increase your chances of escaping and avoiding great bodily harm. Between 1994 and 1997, over 2.8 million women reported sexual assaults in the United States. 78% of these victims avoided being raped by taking self-protective measures.
82% of women who resisted an assault say it helped their situation.
ONLY 18.9% OF WOMEN WHO RESISTED SAID THAT IS WORSENED THE SITUATION.
Of those who were helped by resisting:
39.9% AVOIDED INJURY OR GREATER INJURY
38.3% ENABLED THEMSELVES TO ESCAPE
21.7% SCARED OF THE OFFENDER
Although over 70% attackers are unarmed, even if they do have a weapon, you have a much higher survival rate by resisting and trying to escape. Virtually ever victim who goes with an attacker to a second location is sexually assaulted and/or killed. If the attacker has a gun, run away in a zig zag pattern and the chances of him shooting and causing a fatal injury greatly reduces.
