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New Bristol campaign: 'Denial over male rape fills victims with shame' - mistaken beliefs make it hard for male survivors to come forward because they are left with feelings of shame, confusion and self-blame for what happened

Imnotmrabut

February 25, 2014

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http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Campaigner-Denial-male-rape-fills-victims-shame/story-20663282-detail/story.html#ixzz2uHfrRYvA

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Title	New Bristol campaign: 'Denial over male rape fills victims with shame' - mistaken beliefs make it hard for male survivors to come forward because they are left with feelings of shame, confusion and self-blame for what happened
Author	Imnotmrabut
Upvotes	11
Comments	7
Date	February 25, 2014 7:00 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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[–]superfuzzy 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

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[–]Imnotmrabut[S] 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago* (4 children) | Copy Link

I think you are not clear on the issues - the disbelief is not that male rape exists, it's that women do rape and that they even enjoy doing it.

But then a again good studies assist in debunking mythology:

[From Deviance to Normalcy: Women as Sexual Aggressors "..as many as 7% of women self-report the use of physical force to obtain sex, 40% self-report sexual coercion..50% self-report initiating sexual contact with a man while his judgement was impaired by drugs or alcohol .."(http://redd.it/1cyjgz)

"Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson (1992) reported that approximately 18% of women and 22% of men believed that it is impossible to rape a man - regardless of perpetrator sex. The authors also reported that some subjects believed that men did not experience trauma due to a sexual assault by a woman (35% of men and 22% of women). The authors concluded that male rape myths were more likely to be accepted if the perpetrator was a woman. Thus, the use of pressure tactics or force by a woman could be seen as a method of foreplay and not aggression."

Abstract In this study, we investigated the prevalence of women's sexual aggression against men and examined predictors of sexual aggression in a sample of 248 women. Respondents reported their use of aggressive strategies (physical force, exploitation of a man's incapacitated state, and verbal pressure) to make a man engage in sexual touch, sexual intercourse, or oral sex against his will. Childhood abuse, gender role orientation, ambiguous communication of sexual intentions, level of sexual activity, and peer pressure were included as predictors of sexual aggression. Almost 1 in 10 respondents (9.3%) reported having used aggressive strategies to coerce a man into sexual activities. Exploitation of the man's incapacitated state was used most frequently (5.6%), followed by verbal pressure (3.2%), and physical force (2%). An additional 5.4% reported attempted acts of sexual aggression.

and

Anderson, P. (1998). Variations in college women’s self-reported heterosexual aggression. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 10(4), 283-292.

The respondents were questioned about their lifetime initiation of heterosexual activity. Approximately 28.5% of the women from the East reported engaging in sexually initiatory behaviors traditionally defined as sexual coercion, 21.1% in sexual abuse, and 7.1% in physically forced sex. The women in the sample from the South also reported engaging in sexual coercion (25.7%), sexual abuse (7.3%), and physically forced sex (1.6%), but at lower rates than the other sample. Chi-square tests demonstrated significant group differences for overall sexual aggression (the combination of coercion, abuse, and physical force), sexual abuse, and physically forced sex but not for sexual coercion.

It makes Sugar and Spice and all Things Nice look a little less likely.

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