There were almost five million acts of violence reported in the United States last year which involved women twelve years old and older. Three quarters of women who were attacked while by themselves and half of the women attacked by multiple assailants were attacked by people that they knew. Thirty percent of women who have had violence were attacked by an intimate partner like a husband, boyfriend, or girlfriend. A sample training seminar session from the American Women's Self Association consists of four days of rigorous self defense training. International instructors will there for you to talk to and gain information that could help you in your women's self defense goals or even pick up on the latest gadgetry that he women's self defense industry has come out with. When you go on a date you must remember that society has made it a part of most men's understanding that sex will be the outcome of the date. Women's self defense experts state that a man may be more eager to get to that goal than the woman and her signals, both in communication and body language will make him presume that you want the same thing as he does. You will probably be bound or duct tapped and sometimes you may just be threatened with a gun or knife. What are you going to do to get out of that situation? Remember in a moving car everyone is vulnerable and the kidnapper really can't keep his entire attention on your and the road at the same time. Women's self defense instructors will teach that when you jab a person in the stomach slightly below the chest bone, the attacker will back away quickly or try to turn his or her body away to get away from the pain. When you apply pressure next to the collar bone it will cause the attacker to move downward away from the pain. The significant other can supply more emotional support in the way of letting the woman choose where and where she is not comfortable. Later in the healing process, you might want to escort the victim to the site of the attack. Here she can confront her fears and break down a barrier that is holding her back.