Two sentences i see always in all conversations about rape are "99% of rape victims are women" and "men are raped by other men" ! is this true ? the source of these claims is Mary Koss, on of America's most influential voices in sexual violence who published america's first national study on rape in 1987. the problem is that she don't consider female on male rape as rape. when asked about a man who was druged and when woke up found a woman on top of him and his penis inside her she said "It is inappropriate to consider as a rape victim a man who engaged in unwanted sexual intercourse with a woman" according to her the term "rape" can only be used for sexual abuse against women ! (hear the audio here)

No surprise that if you define rape as "penetration" most victims will be women and men will be victims by other men only. but what we will find if we take an inclusive definition of rape ?!

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• Men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex.
• 79 percent of men reported female perpetrators.
• Female inmates are more likely to be abused by other inmates than are male inmates
• In juvenile corrections facilities, female staff are also a much more significant threat than male staff; more than nine in ten juveniles who reported staff sexual victimization were abused by a woman.

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For more read Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known by Scientific American:

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the CDC’s nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. Over their lifetime, 79 percent of men who were “made to penetrate” someone else (a form of rape, in the view of most researchers) reported female perpetrators. Likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had female perpetrators.

Rape has no gender, awareness campaign should use inclusive language. government funding should go only for inclusive services and deprive organizations that serve only some genders and ignore the rest.

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I know that a lot of people here already know that but it's good to repost for newcomers.