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Hi r/MensRights. I am writing a report on male rape for my Social Justice class and needed some help.

nickrulz11 · 2012-05-21T03:42:37+00:00

As the title says, I am to write a report on a social justice issue of my choice and I have chosen to write about Female to Male rape and how it should be...

nickrulz11

May 21, 2012

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Title	Hi r/MensRights. I am writing a report on male rape for my Social Justice class and needed some help.
Author	nickrulz11
Upvotes	5
Comments	7
Date	May 21, 2012 3:42 AM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/twzm1/hi_rmensrights_i_am_writing_a_report_on_male_rape/
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[–]thrway_1000 6 points7 points8 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Resources on Male Rape:

[–]Celda 4 points5 points6 points 14 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–]nickrulz11[S] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]Bobsutan 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Reposting in the event OneY goes Feminist and that post gets deleted:

There are two people who meet at a party, Jesse and Taylor. Neither are overly intoxicated, and both find each other attractive. One thing leads to another, and they end up at Taylor's apartment—indeed, in Taylor's bed. They enthusiastically remove each other's clothes as quickly as they can, but just before they actually start to have sex, Taylor stops.

“Wait, do you have a condom?”

“No, do you?” Jesse replies.

“Damnit!” says Taylor.

“It's fine, we don't need one...”

“It's not fine!” Taylor says. “We're not fucking without a condom.”

The response from Jesse is not verbal. Jesse simply climbs up on top of Taylor and initiates standard penis-in-vagina intercourse.

In this scenario, is Jesse a rapist? For a lot of people, their answer to that question depends on one factor: whether Jesse is a man or a woman.

Logically and ethically, Jesse would be a rapist regardless of gender. In both situations, the actions are the same. The consent, or lack thereof, is the same. But in practical terms? Only a male Jesse would be a rapist under this hypothetical scenario. To most people, and arguably society as a whole: a man can rape a woman with his penis, but a woman cannot rape a man with her vagina.

Many people believe it is literally impossible for men to be raped by women in the same manner as the above scenario. They will say that such a thing is physically impossible, which is plain false. Or they will say that a man in that situation would simply fight the woman off. Never mind that many men, like many women, are psychologically incapable of violence. Never mind that some men are physically weaker than some women.

But it's more than that. A male victim of rape who went to the police with such a story would be laughed out of the station.

There was a recent case in Germany of a man who, after initially consenting to sex, was raped by a woman who locked him in his flat and refused to let him leave. He was only freed after he called the police for help. When this story made the rounds in the media, the words rape and rapist was never used. Instead, the woman was described as “sex-mad”. Incredibly, the woman was never named, but in some articles the victim was. The facts of the event do not seem to be in question, even the woman herself does not deny the above facts. A later news article described a second victim; I also saw one online commenter who said that this woman has raped several men, but each time the police did nothing (though this cannot be taken as gospel).

Imagine an article where a woman was forced to have sex—locked in a room, and only freed by calling the police—after a consensual encounter. The male rapist corroborated the story, so that there was no dispute about what exactly happened. Could you imagine for one second that there would be articles discussing a “sex-mad” man? Or that the authorities would bid him good day and do nothing?

You may be thinking that cases of women raping men are so rare as to be a relatively trivial issue. According to a recent survey by the Center for Disease Control, during the 2010 period, 1.1% of men reported being “made to penetrate” during those 12 months. For perspective, an equal 1.1% of women reported being raped by penetration during the same time period.

But alas, even the CDC study itself is an example of the bias against male rape victims. Men who were raped in the manner described in Jesse and Taylor's story, were not categorized as rape victims, but as victims of “other sexual violence.”

Why is that relevant? Because then, the CDC can say something like this in their abstract:

“Nearly 1 in 5 women (18.3%) and 1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives”

This nice soundbite can be repeated in articles for the masses, the writers of which can be secure in the knowledge that over 90% of readers will never read the actual study, which is freely available online, to see the data for themselves.

All of this goes to show that it is easy to prove that very few men are raped. The only thing necessary is to create a definition of rape which intentionally excludes male victims.

[–]Celda 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

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