Vivicia, you are jumping to wild conclusions, and ignorantly attributing to me views I do not hold. If you want to project Daily Mail opinions onto someone, find another poster. Particularly not someone who's actually worked with rape survivors.
The CSEW results indicate around 10% of rape is stranger rape. But the Met's SOI (sexual offences index) the figure is around 17% of recorded cases. This is partly to do with differences in classification, but equally the CSEW does not include victims under 16, which account for around 20% of the total.
The majority of acquaintance rape occurs in public places, social events, the home of the victim, the assailant or a friend, for example.
But, for women who are raped or sexually assaulted by strangers it's more likely to be outdoors. In urban environments you do see a common pattern - alleys, paths - as I said - towpaths, paths across common land, recreation areas or parks, paths across housing or business estates, anywhere were there are blind spots and fewer witnesses. I didn't 'suddenly change' anything with regard to this issue, I simply gave the context of my comments.
As you seem to need it spelling out, I am not claiming stranger rape is more common than it is. Nor that the incidence of acquaintance rape is not far more common. Nor indeed that all stranger rapes either occur outdoors or in the places I mentioned.
In fact I take issue with the fact that all too often what are called 'rape precautions' focus on stranger danger which can give young women a completely misrepresentative concept of the actual risks, and indeed what constitutes rape. Quite apart from the fact that this places the onus on women to 'avoid' rape as if that were even possible. If someone asks how to take precautions against rape, I say you can't really.
However, if I were going to be mindful of personal safety in an outdoor urban environment, I would bear in mind common places where women are victimised.