Rape seemed to be rather rare, or at least, nobody talked much about it. Whether this was because sexual assault was actually infrequent, or because it was reported and prosecuted less frequently, I really don't know. People didn't collect statistics back then, much less publish them.

It was the accepted wisdom that the sexual attacks that did occur were usually the fault of the "townies", young redneck predators who cruised the colleges looking for coeds because they couldn't get laid on their own merits (probably due to their rural Southern Protestant Fundamentalism). "Hippie girls" were "easy", and they "had it coming" because they were "stuck up". Again, whether this was actually true or not is questionable, but that's what we all believed they believed. For their part, the girls did not fear "date rape", "drug rape", "gang rape", or attacks by their classmates. It was the marauding stranger that they feared, the outsider, and it was he who the campus police kept their eye peeled for.

There were other factors. USF was a state school, and a commuter school. Most of the students were solid working-class kids, not the ne'er-do-well rich boys and other over-privileged types. There were no varsity sports or fraternities allowed, and the male students had a very high percentage of Viet Nam veterans. It was an older, more mature, more experienced crowd on the average. There was little binge drinking; other, more benign drugs were available.

I get the impression things are different today. It appears, from the anecdotal evidence at least, that rape victims are not so much overcome by violence as by pharmaceuticals, and the perpetrators are no longer marauding outsiders, but the sheltered
sons of alumni or revered and subsidized athletes.

Do I have any studies or statistics to prove any of this? Of course not, but what research do we have (other than fake news planted by the Russians)that Muslims are any more likely to commit rape than Christians?

Sex, God, Guns and the Flag are not the only tools demagogues use to create outraged and victimized majorities.