I'm astonished that in this day and age when information is readily available, people can so confidently assert that "obviously" it's worse to be gang raped than raped by a partner.
It's not for anyone else to decide which rape victims should feel more traumatised by their rape than others, and anyway they're wrong. Knowing that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time and just had a stroke of ill luck in meeting a rapist, can be much easier to come to terms with with the right support, than being left with a feeling that if he can do this, then any man can. The actual fear and terror of being attacked by a stranger may be worse, but the psychological recovery from that, may be quicker and more complete than the psychological fuck-up of having had your sense of safety and belief in your ability and right to set boundaries and have them respected, utterly destroyed by a man you trusted. Some rape victims are more damaged by the violence at the time; some by the psychological destruction afterwards; our job as reasonable human beings, is to listen to them and honour what they say, not tell them how much trauma their rape qualifies them to feel, FFS.
It's so irritating to read such ill-informed crap being asserted so confidently. Sorry to be tetchy, but really - rape is one of those subjects, like teaching and breastfeeding, that any random feels qualified to talk crap about in a way they don't feel they could about quantum physics. It's just so annoying.