way of clothing = sexual assualt?

There are people who believe that the way women dress is related to instances of sexual assault on them. Proportion of people belonging to this group of thought is much more outside the debating circles. They say women wearing ‘provocative clothing’ are

‘inviting’ and ‘encouraging’ such assaults. They say every human has basic instincts and such ‘indecent dresses’ provoke 'excessive passion' in them and lead to committing such savage and brutal acts.

If that is the case:

The thief is not at fault because the banker was openly counting the cash thus ‘provoking’ him to steal the money,

                The ivory poachers aren’t to be blamed because they were ‘incited’ by the elephant that passed by showing off it’s tusks,

                Harshad Mehta is (and all such accused are) innocent because he was ‘encouraged’ to cheat by the dumbness & inefficiency of the regulating agencies.

Let’s change the laws now shall we. And bring them in line with such caveman reasoning. I'm not getting into the debate here but what I want is for people to look through such arguments and realize the stupidity in them. There's no getting around the plain fact - the person who sexual assaults a victim is solely responsible for his/her actions. The victim is just that - a victim.

(This is a taboo subject and I tried to put my thoughts as nearly as possible into words. Still, my attempt here is a very crude way of getting the point across.)