Rape is a physical attack, not a sexual one. Rape crisis counselors and researchers define rape as, "an act of violence in which sex is used as a weapon" (Warshaw, 1988, P.11). A woman is raped in this country every two minutes. Between 1996 and 1999, 7,787,000 rapes were reported. The actual number is much, much higher because only 26% of rapes are reported. Husbands or boyfriends assaulted 28% of these women, 35% of these women were raped by people they knew; 1 in 4 of these rapes took place in a public place (Ledray, 1986, P.158).