Kavanaugh stories spotlight a dark reality for American girls

The statistic is shocking and, well, not: For an estimated one in 16 American women, according to a study published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, her "first time" having sex was "an unwanted first sexual intercourse that is physically forced or coerced." As one of the study co-authors pointed out, "it is accurate" to call this what it is: rape. Among the women who experienced not first-time sex but first-time rape, the average age was about fifteen and a half. Their assailants were are on average six years older -- adult men preying on girls.