Education, gender sensitization and legal awareness are indispensable to control rapes. We need better policing and CCTV mapping of desolate areas. Cognitive restructuring is needed to remove the myths clogging our minds. Behavioural and emotional intelligence is very different from academic intelligence. We need to question the accused and not the victim, the time of rape or the dress she wore. Society needs to stigmatize the perpetrator instead of the victim. Sensible sensitivity is essential to counter this crime which is rightly classified as the ‘worst crime against womanhood’.