I'm making this post because I'm tired of people deliberately ignoring male rape victims by parroting the "Well, if he had an erection that means he wanted it" myth. Those people, especially feminist-minded people then either dismiss male rape victims' experiences altogether or label the experiences as something else, such as "made to penetrate."

The Academic Review:

Sexual Arousal and Orgasm in Subjects Who Experience Forced Stimulation

Abstract

"The review examines whether unsolicited or non-consensual sexual stimulation of either females or males can lead to unwanted sexual arousal or even to orgasm. The conclusion is that such scenarios can occur and that the induction of arousal and orgasm does not indicate that the subjects consented to the stimulation. A perpetrators defence simply built upon the fact that evidence of genital arousal or orgasm proves consent has no intrinsic validity and should be disregarded."

Excerpts

"Clinician A sent the following comments: ‘'I (have) met quite a lot of victims (males) who had the full sex-ual response during sexual abuse.' ‘I (have) met several female victims of incest and rape who hadlubrication and orgasm.'’’

"Sarrel and Masters collected a case series where adult males molested by women who used forced assaults, physical restraint or believable threats of physical violence, responded sexually with an erection and were forced to undertake coital activity. More recently Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson gave a questionnaire to 204 college men who were predominantly heterosexual asking about pressured or forced sexual touch or intercourse since age 16. Some 34% had experienced coercive sexual contact, 24% from women and 4% from men. This was achieved in 88% of the reported incidents either by persuasion, bribery, intoxication, threat of love withdrawal or by force (12%). Interviews with 10 of the respondents revealed that the fear of telling others about the event was a problem. A laboratory study showed that anxiety-inducing threats of an electric shock actually enhanced erectile responses to erotic stimuli. It is clear that both young and adult males can have maintained erections not only to nonconsensual sexual stimulation but even to such stimulation when they are exposed to fearsome scenarios."

Citation

Levin, R.J. & van Berlo, W. (2004). Sexual arousal and orgasm in subjects who experience forced or non-consensual sexual stimulation – a review. Jounral of Clinical Forensic Medicine. 11, 82-88.