As the one in chat's only going to be here for a month, here's the OP (boringly) again:
Way back in May, on the back of Ken Clarke's disgraceful interview he gave to Victoria Derbyshire, I knocked up a quick survey in SurveyMonkey to do a bit of a straw poll to find out how many of us had been affected by the 'not very serious' rapes he'd mentioned. While I was at it, I chucked sexual assault into the mix. It was a really ill thought out survey and I'm no statistician so the data isn't as 'useful' as it might be. SurveyMonkey gives you free access to the data up until you have 500 responses. But the survey got over 800 - I was stunned.
Even more stunning were the stories. I was prepared for the stats which were shocking enough, but the last question was a seemingly innocuous 'Anything else you'd like to say?'.
That was where the stories came out and I'm afraid that's where I became completely paralysed. I have found it so, so upsetting to read the stories that I haven't been able to process the information. I keep steeling myself to look at it and then I get so far and I can't do any more.
So I would like to apologise to everyone who contributed who thought they were talking to a vacuum, you really weren't. And I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to do this before. But I defy anyone not to break down when you read the 13 pages of accounts of abuse, assault and rape. It's absolutely horrifying. I have edited nothing but spelling - all responses are as written. I haven't edited, I haven't ordered.
Main survey results
Narrative responses
Apologies again for the tardiness of this and thank you so much to everyone who replied - I'm not sure what we should do with this wealth of information but I would really welcome your thoughts - there is a serious gap somewhere in education/dialogue/awareness.
I will also post this in Feminism as there is no 30 day cull there but as chat is where I posted the survey, I thought this is where I should post the responses.