DD/TigerEye, I think you should ask all the women you know that have been raped (and if you're 25 you know at least one) why they didn't report their assault. I'll bet most of them didn't, and you'll be surprised @ some of the reasons they give. I don't think you appreciate how powerless a person can feel about after a sexual assault. I disagree it's "unseemly" to not come out until later; better late then never, I say. Once a friend told me her adult daughter told her she'd been raped by the son of a family friend. She was not going to report it, and told her parents not to. The rapist wasn't her boss, a co-worker, didn't have a high powered lawyer who'd destroy her, etc. Apparently she felt she'd been thru one trauma w/the assault and didn't want to prolong it by reporting him. I disagree w/that, but it was also understandable considering what some people go thru after reporting assaults. I wouldn't have it in me to "blame" such a person.