[wmeredith]

The sad answer is these behaviors just aren’t all that high risk, despite what “#himtoo” would have you believe. Take the most extreme form of sexual assault: rape. The best statistics we have(1) say that only 31% of all rape is even reported at all. Out of 1000 rape occurrences 994 (!) times the perpetrator will see ZERO jail time. It’s hard to find equivalent statistics for murder, but compare that to a murder “close” rate of 56% in the US, as reported by the FBI.

There are obviously a hundred shades of gray between rape and an unwanted compliment. So if rape is the most extreme, and the most risky, and you have a 70% chance of literally nothing happening and the chance of seeing actual jail time is statistically zero... this whole category of behaviors is definitely not “high risk”.

1. Statistics compiled by the RAINN institute which uses the US Justice Department’s reporting for its main data sources. More info here: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system