Lea, you’re on to something, but I think it’s more like this:
Sane people of either sex are reluctant to report rape because they don’t want the ordeal. This leaves a lot of not-so-sane people (the Duke case comes to mind) reporting it to prosecutors who may have their own agendas (Nifong comes to mind), and a lot of cases that shouldn’t be prosecuted are, and a lot of false convictions happen (as we are discovering right, left, and center by DNA evidence of men who have been wrongfully in prison for years).
It should be obvious that all false rape allegations are reported, but only a fraction of real rapes are. That’s naturally going to result in a high proportion of prosecutions of innocent people. That’s just the way it is. We can only hope the justice system does a better job than they have in the past.
