You keep repeating this, is there any evidence for it at all? Dressing sexy will lead to more attention from everyone. Attention is not how rapists choose their prey. Female joggers get raped regardless of clothing. Women walking alone at night get raped regardless of clothing. Dates get raped regardless of clothing. Ugly conservatively dressed grandmothers get raped regardless of clothing. Rape is about power and vulnerability. Raping the uptight stuffily dressed woman is a more likely scenario than raping the party girl since the former is apparently not interested in attention making the violation more rewarding for the sicko, and the party girl as a focus of attention makes her a much harder target to isolate. You might as well say dressing more conservatively makes you more attractive to rapists. If you have anything to backup your continued assertion feel free to post it. Every study I've seen says clothing motivating rape is myth.
As to detectives, no disrespect, but that'd be confirmation bias more likely than not. Most rape victims aren't "hot" so the cop can focus on finding a real motivating factor or cause if one even exists besides the twisted mind of the perpetrator. When the victim was hot or dressed sexily, "ah, that must have been why."
It's going to be hard to prove that, especially since today it's very politically incorrect to suggest that anything about the victim in any way contributed to her being raped, or in other words that rape is always a crime of aggression against victims always selected at random. There are however a couple of indications. First, I'm sure if you're interested in the subject that you've seen studies on attitudes toward rape, like this.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7676869
Abstract
A vignette depicting a date rape was presented to 352 male and female high school students. To investigate the effect of the victim's clothing on subjects' judgments of the date rape, the vignette was accompanied by either a photograph of the victim dressed provocatively, a photograph of the victim dressed conservatively, or no photograph. Subjects who viewed the photograph of the victim in provocative clothing were more likely than subjects who viewed the victim dressed conservatively or who saw no photograph of the victim to indicate that the victim was responsible for her assailant's behavior, that his behavior was justified, and were less likely to judge the act of unwanted sexual intercourse as rape.
While not conclusive, it seems reasonable that if men are more likely to reject a charge of rape for provocatively dressed victims, they are also more likely to overcome their (hopefully innate) revulsion toward raping another human being.
Crooks and Bauer made reference to "a number of studies":
http://books.google.com/books?id=Mp...q=influence%20of clothing on rape&f=false
A number of studies have found that men regard rape as justifiable, or at least hold the woman more responsible than themselves, if she leads a man on by such actions as dressing "suggestively" or going to his apartment (Muchlenhard et al., 1991; Workman and Freeburg, 1999.)
Again, while not conclusive, this tends to support my point. We saw the same thing acted out with Kobe Bryant; when a woman presents an image that she is there for sex, some men will rape them, justifying in their minds as "Well, she wanted sex, I gave it to her" or "slut got what she deserved." Any appearance or behavior that can help a potential rapist justify his behavior makes it easier for him to do the deed.
This whole area is very difficult to evaluate for several reasons. Victims seldom want to discuss a rape, much less what (if anything) they might have to done to avoid it. Rapists are interested primarily in reducing the appearance and magnitude of their own guilt, at least for sentencing and parole purposes even if they have nary a shred on conscious left. Feminists are interested primarily in making sure that no stigma attaches to woman and that their freedom is not in any way constrained, even to the point of denying reality.
Nonetheless, there are certain undeniable things one can say about rape, such as its diverse causes. First is aggression; the rapist wants to enforce his will on another. Second is anger, toward all women or toward a certain type of woman, or even toward a particular individual, that drives the rapist to rape someone he sees as representative of that group to punish the group as a whole and thereby make himself feel better. Third is lust; the rapist wants to have sex with a particular woman (or even ANY woman) and has no conscious, so he takes what he wants without the slightest concern for the woman. Fourth is a demonstration of manhood, often seen in gang rapes. A young man might not be a threat alone, but in the gang situation participates in a gang rape in order to demonstrate his manhood to his peers. Only the third necessarily requires a woman the rapist finds attractive; although anger might drive a rapist to rape sexily dressed women, his anger might equally be against middle-aged women in house dresses. However, notice that while the third motivation definitely tilts in favor of provocatively dressed women, none of the other motivations necessarily tilt in favor of conservatively dressed women. That alone increases the odds of a provocatively dressed women being raped.
I should also emphasize again that in no way does this mitigate the rapists' guilt or attach any blame to the girl or to the parents
for the rape. She has a perfect right to not be raped even if she is masturbating naked on a car hood. And even the most conservatively dressed woman working in a police station and living next door is not 100% safe against rape. But in my opinion, this politically correct notion that appearance and location have zero influence on a woman's chances of being raped are poorly serving women, much in the way that refusing to admit that HIV/AIDS was being spread in homosexual bath houses poorly served homosexual men. Failure to recognize the world as it is makes poor armor against evil.
EDIT: If you can find it, Camille Paglia did some excellent writing on this source.
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