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Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If anyone didn't know, Alaska has the highest rate of sexual violence in the US.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if this is an effect of isolation?

I'm curious what sort of environmental factors influence this sort of behavior.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opportunism and lack of consequences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When help is 30+ minutes away....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

environmental factors like it being really fucking cold 8 months out of the year?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that there's only 700,000 people in Alaska. 14 cases are gonna show up on the national scale.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is about Antarctica, the SOUTH pole, even souther than Alabama, hon. Not Alaska way up north.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More just making an observation about cold and isolated places. Also the whole long days/ nights thing. Helps put it into perspective for Americans.