The Hidden Epidemic of Men Who Are Raped by Women

When it comes to reporting the outcomes of the survey, the CDC discounts men who have been forced to penetrate someone else—either by coercion, physical force, or lack of consent—by listing statistics for the crime under the category “other victimization,” along with seemingly lesser offenses like “non-contact unwanted sexual experiences.”

“They put it in the same broad category as being flashed or receiving lewd comments from a stranger,” Stemple said. “There’s no context, and it really minimizes the abuse.”

Stemple has long focused her research on how sexual violence against men goes under-reported. In 2014, she released a paper on male victims of sexual violence which analyzed several national surveys and found that, when taking into account cases where men were “made to penetrate” someone else, the rates of nonconsensual sexual contact between men and women were basically equal: 1.267 million men said they had been victims of sexual violence, compared with 1.270 million women.

Stemple’s new, wide-ranging study presents the results of the CDC’s most recent phone survey, which found that 68.6 percent of men who report sexual victimization describe female perpetrators. Meanwhile, among men who reported being made to penetrate—”the form of nonconsensual sex men are much more likely to experience in their lifetime,” according to the study—79.2 percent cited female perpetrators.

P.S. Notice how they had to put it in a separate category just to avoid calling it 'rape' when the victim is male. Yet when it comes to women, almost anything can be counted as such these days. The irony. Probably just another patriarchal privilege.