Supporters of the Million Women Rise march and rally opposing violence against women make their way along Oxford Street, London. But these myths also actively harm women and girls, by perpetuating the ‘stranger danger’ narrative of sexual violence. The vast majority of children who experience contact sexual abuse are abused by someone they know. “So much of domestic abuse is about power and control, and that’s psychological. “You’ll notice that we say ‘male violence against women and girls’ instead of ‘violence against women and girls’.