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Men make up most of the US military's sexual assault victims.

marcos_b

September 23, 2013

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/21/us/military-suicide-rape/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

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Title	Men make up most of the US military's sexual assault victims.
Author	marcos_b
Upvotes	29
Comments	18
Date	September 23, 2013 12:40 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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Upvote for relevance, but I do have a bit of a disagreement here.

I don't think it's a common argument that men can't be raped by other men. It seems pretty well acknowledged that it does happen. It's mostly talked about in the context of our prisons where it is not taken seriously as the gross violation of human rights that it is because of the lack of sympathy towards male prisoners. Hell, it's often laughed about and taken as the just desserts for a male prisoner.

Female prisoners are also frequently abused sexually, sometimes by other inmates, but often by male guards. It is definitely a gender equity issue in that this is taken much more seriously as a violation of rights when it happens to women.

I've never seen the "men can't be raped" argument come in to play when the rapist was not a woman. I don't know the stats on rape in the military. There may be some with female rapists, however given the demographics of the military, these are overwhelmingly if not almost exclusively male-on-male rapes. Plus this story, in particular, focuses on male-on-male rape.

This doesn't take away from the fact that these rape victims are pressured, not only explicitly through the authority structure, but implicitly through society's expectations of them as men to keep these crimes swept under the rug. Even more so if the perp is female. I wouldn't be surprised if there were actually no reports of female-on-male rape in the military seeing how the culture works. How many men under that kind of pressure would step forward and make the charge?

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