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By Helen Pringle, published 8/2/2007As Geoff Clark recently noted, the Australian media shows little interest in 'typical' cases of sexual assault.
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Is Mise, I suspect that the police (or other organisations) have some personal safety advice available. For the sake of discussion I'll toss in my 2c worth.
Treat it like any other personal safety issue, try and avoid the need to fight your way out of a bad situation. All of us should be free from threat's to our personal safety but that's not the way the world is unfortunately.
As an adult male who is over 6ft I still need to make choices about my personal safety.
I've been directly threatened in public places a couple of times where I was seriously scared, once by someone with a knife and another time by a guy with a racial chip on his shoulder and some friends nearby.
If I'm attacked the attacker may be bigger still, a better fighter (not real hard), armed with a weapon or part of a group. There are places and times where someone walking alone is at greater than normal risk of being attacked - I try and avoid those places and times.
There are choices in clothing and accessories which might place me at risk in some places (who wants to get killed because somebody liked your shoes). I don't flash around things with theft appeal if I suspect that doing so places me at greater risk.
I don't choose to hang out with people because of their tough image, if they disrespect the basic rights of others then mine are at risk as well.
I don't torment others for recreation or otherwise unnecessarily provoke them.
Most of those can fairly easily be translated into strategies to minimise the risk of rape. No guarantee's but then who of us has any real guarantee's about personal safety.
R0bert