The popular image of sexual violence against women centres on the possibility of being attacked by a stranger. Commentators and politicians are quick to tell us that men are somehow naturally violent towards women and that their 'biological make-up' is to blame for most attacks.
This pamphlet exposes this image for the myth that it has always been. Sexual violence against women is most prevalent in the family. And far from originating in anything biological or innate, it is the warped attitudes to sex and demeaning ideas about women that dominate our society that result in some men lashing out at the women in their lives.