On the sexual assault of men

redgarnetamaranth · 2021-08-13T23:08:09+00:00

We want to stress again (as we mention elsewhere in this paper) that crimes of sexual violence against women are widespread, the cause of great physical and emotional pain, and completely inexcusable under all circumstances. The goal of this paper is not in any way to diminish these sad facts. Rather, our goal is to take a look at an underdiscussed topic, namely, the rape of men.

It always irks me when stuff like this is included, as if it's necessary to coddle feminists to assure them that discussing male issues isn't detracting from female issues. This just isn't something you see the other way around.

Oncefa2 · 2021-08-13T23:13:12+00:00

Wow they're basically pulling from the same sources and saying the same things we've been saying for years.

Take the CDC data, look at the relevant data tables and how the numbers are defined, look at how a normal person defines rape, and it's clear as day that the CDC is reporting gender parity for sexual assault.

They just don't use the word rape. They call it made to penetrate.

Of course Time magazine picked this up years ago as well. And it's not just the CDC. There's a lot of other research and data sets showing the same thing.

I'm not all the way through it yet but I love how straight forward this source is. It's better than the Stemple and Meyer papers if you want something quotable on the topic that's not easy to dance around.

molbionerd · 2021-08-13T19:58:27+00:00

I brought this here after seeing it in another sub. The researchers show that men are raped at the same rate as women and that women are perpetrators of rape against men at the same rate as men on women. Men suffer long term psychological trauma from being raped, contrary to the popular narrative. Furthermore, the researchers go on to make an argument that we have an ethical obligation to take these cases seriously unlike they have been treated in the past. They link the lack of belief of men directly to feminist theory on rape

SexEleven · 2021-08-14T11:55:53+00:00

The thing I’m curious about is what level of intoxication counts as inability to consent as well as how they count cases where both people are intoxicated. I say this because I think this is used to overestimate number of male perpetrators and so it might being doing the same to female perpetrators. Saying all this as a male who has been sexually assaulted by women and men, btw, but also someone who has had plenty of drunk sex where we were both drunk and definitely still able to consent

lightning_palm · 2021-08-16T20:35:32+00:00

u/molbionerd Have you considered posting that on r/science?

Title	On the sexual assault of men
Author	molbionerd
Upvotes	85
Comments	33
Date	August 13, 2021 7:58 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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