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William MacAskill said in “Doing Good Better” that “If a specific area has already received a great deal of funding and attention, then we should expect it to be difficult to do a lot of good by devoting additional resources to that area. I also addressed the question of whether this is a neglected area. I evaluated nineteen sexual violence reduction options and included relevant research in the tractability section. I estimated various quantities related to impact including: the number of sexually violent people in EA, the number of lives that can be saved, the amount of productivity currently being lost, the effect on movement building, the effect on diversity / potential for disadvantage reduction, and suffering reduction. It can be hard for sexual violence survivors to talk about sexual violence. A meta-analysis of unreported rape studies found that 6% of men are undetected rapists (and there doesn’t appear to be a study with the percentage of women who are undetected rapists). Using figures from the Department of Justice, RAINN showed that the majority of sex offenders walk free. Part of this commonness is the difficulty of catching the offenders due to stigma and insufficient evidence. Figures from the Center for Disease Control show that 36.3% of women and 17.1% of men in the US have been sexually assaulted. These figures might surprise you: unfortunately, sexual violence is very common. The amount of impact looks huge, and multiple options are worth trying. After spending hundreds of hours reading research, I'm concerned that too few people understand sexual violence well enough to seek out and use the most effective options. When I learned more, I saw that it is worth evaluating for effective altruism potential. Sexual violence is very complicated, there are a lot of common myths about it, and it's hard to reason about such an upsetting topic. We will miss things if heuristics are all that we use. Level of attention is a heuristic we can use to quickly locate areas where the most effective options haven't been applied yet, but heuristics are an imperfect method. Sexual violence receives a lot of attention, but attention is not the same as taking effective action. It’s important because it poses a significant risk of suicidal behavior, because it causes a lot of suffering, and because sex offenders can drastically reduce other people’s progress toward their goals. Sexual violence is an important human rights issue.