# Are rape victims more likely to be raped again? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-rape-victims-more-likely-to-be-raped-again/418339 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [September 7, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-rape-victims-more-likely-to-be-raped-again/418339 "2007-09-07T05:17:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 55
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [November 6, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-rape-victims-more-likely-to-be-raped-again/418339/55 "2013-11-06T17:09:33Z")
> [@Little\_Cloud](#): > > I spent some time volunteering to be on call for rape survivors in the ER of a large city hospital. This is only anecdotal but every time I was called, the victim had alcohol on her breath and a few had been raped more than once. This leads me to believe that women who drink a lot and hang out in bars with drunk men are more likely to be raped. It shouldn’t be true but I think it is. I also had two cases of mentally retarded women who were victimized repeatedly. I suspect it is factors like these that would explain the “statistics”. I doubt that a random victim of a home invasion rape is more likely to be raped again. Can’t recall where I read this, but I read an account a while back from a woman who did this too, and she couldn’t get over the number of women who said they had been raped 10, 20, or even more times. :eek: She asked the center’s coordinator, “What are these women DOING to experience thing again and again?” and the coordinator explained to her about sexual abuse, high risk behavior, etc. and that some people (not just women) unconscious put themselves in situation where they will be victimized, often because they feel they deserve it or just don’t know any better. ☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-rape-victims-more-likely-to-be-raped-again/418339)._