It’s not a nice truth, or one that anyone condones. It is, however, a truth that might save some women from a horrific ordeal.

But there are some feminists who are, as ever, more anxious to take offence than help a fellow woman. Advice on how to protect yourself from crime — whether it’s a crime against property or person — is a service to us all.

Karen Ingala Smith, spokesperson for the anti-violence charity Nia (no, me neither), may want to believe that the poster reinforces ‘the excuses made by rapists as they attempt to discredit the women they rape and justify their crime’.

But no one I know is going to start sympathising with rapists because of a poster campaign. Whereas I can think of an impressionable teenager or three who might just hold back a little if the warning is stark enough.