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Booze-fuelled sex assaults targeted - Canada - Canoe.ca
This is the first time a sexual assault prevention campaign has centered around the offender, not the victim.
"When a woman is sexually assaulted, she'll go through a list in her mind and blame herself saying What on earth did I do wrong? I must have forgotten one of the rules" says Karen Smith of the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, also at Friday's launch.
"This innovative SAVE committee believes that as long as society directs prevention strategies at women, we all stop looking at what the real problem is - the perpetrators."
Past campaigns have given tips to women on how to prevent sexual assault induced by drugs and alcohol but have proven to had minimal impact.
"Tips just reinforce the myth that somehow women are responsible for anticipating and preventing sexual violence," Smith says.