Women surveyed in 2019 were 5x more likely to believe that men enjoyed being raped compared with women in 1984

retrosenescent · 2025-10-06T15:31:08+00:00

Judgments by male participants of male victims of assaults carried out by women changed notably over time. The 2019 male cohort was less likely to judge that the victim initiated or encouraged the incident (40% in 1984 compared with 15% in 2019) and derived pleasure from it (47.4% in 1984 compared with 5.8% in 2019). In contrast, the 2019 female cohort was more likely to attribute victim encouragement (26.9% compared with 4.3% in 1984) and pleasure to the male victim (25% in 2019 compared with 5% in 1984).

Wrong_Meal_4974 · 2025-10-06T16:08:17+00:00

#TeachWomenNotToRape

FrequentPaperPilot · 2025-10-06T18:25:53+00:00

Didn't Riley Reid (the pornstar) publicly admit to raping a man? She even laughed as she admitted it.

Imagine that. You publicly admit a crime and no investigation occurs.

Due-Permission1353 · 2025-10-06T16:56:06+00:00

'It's other men who make fun of men who get raped'

'It's feminists like Mary Koss who spread awareness about male rape'

(I have seen the second quote being used unironically)

Honestly, the ignorance I have seen from women regarding male rape, and by that I mean each and every woman with whom I have talked about it. With men it's a mixed bag, but at least some of them have had the basic awareness about the issue and how common it is in society. Obviously this is just my anecdotal experience, but since I am in India, I expect lack of awareness to be the norm, even west doesn't seem all that better considering the amount of times I have seen misinformation like 91% victims women 99% perpetrators men being spread and being believed in.

DutchOnionKnight · 2025-10-06T18:38:22+00:00

For a group of people who (claim) to understand how harmfull rape is, this is.... just something.

AfghanistanIsTaliban · 2025-10-06T16:34:37+00:00

WTF. At first I read this the other way around. Things are getting worse?!

Trunkenboldwtf · 2025-10-06T17:11:21+00:00

Only one women managed to respect my sexual boundaries after i was raped. For the rest it was more of a game too see if they can push my boundaries. My boundaries where things like don't touch my dick while we're in public amongst other people, which shouldn't be a difficult thing to do.

>insert some why don't men open up meme here<

SarcasticallyCandour · 2025-10-06T17:20:44+00:00

Well women hate men more in 2019 than 1984. Womens studies wasnt mainstream then.

At least the study was done and published, it's a start.

SpicyMarshmellow · 2025-10-06T18:48:56+00:00

I honestly can't think of any reason for the definition of rape to focus so much on penetration, other than to exclude male victims. Here's my go at a better definition. It's really not hard.

Sexual Assault: Things done for sexual gratification that involve the participation of someone not consenting.

Rape: Things done for the purpose of, or that would normally be for the purpose of, achieving orgasm in one of the participants, with one of the participants not consenting.

Rucs3 · 2025-10-06T17:35:37+00:00

Okay I wonder if what is happening here is the following

women in 1984 thought men only suffer rape from another men, therefore valid

women in 2019 started to believe that, yes, women can force men into sex against their will, but the men is getting sex, therefore he will enjoy anyway

in a extremely fucked up way this could be chalked up to some kind of meagre progress? From believing that man cannot be raped by women at all, to believing it is possible but they enjoy?

like, yeah, it's still hienous, but what if in 40 years awareness progress even more and more and more women believe that men can be raped by women and that it's also noy enjoiyable?

Low-Philosopher-2354 · 2025-10-07T01:35:48+00:00

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. Maybe you guys have some different opinions, I've got specific trauma relating to this at all but at least in Feminist spaces there seems to be an unspoken lack of any issues with a woman completely dominating and controlling a man, at least with respect to the way it's viewed. It's even fetishized as far as I've seen, though the reverse is now considered unacceptable.

ExternalGreen6826 · 2025-10-06T17:14:12+00:00

5X?? Is this true? If so that’s shocking

WM_THR_11 · 2025-10-10T14:48:55+00:00

That's... quite bleak. Doesn't just demonstrate the rise in misandry but also seeming deterioration of vocabulary, I mean did the ~20-30% of women surveyed know that rape, by definition entails lack of consent?

alter_furz · 2025-10-06T17:07:43+00:00

It's like interviewing men about whether women enjoy giving birth

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