On the Sexual Assault of Men

Oncefa2 · 2021-08-14T13:05:38+00:00

This paper was written by two mathematicians / statisticians and a philosopher of ethics who looked at previous research and data on sexual assault. And they came to the conclusion that men are raped (including by women) at essentially the same rate as the reverse. They also argue that hiding and minimizing this is an obvious ethical problem.

In particular, they analyzed the CDC NISVS data and came to the same conclusion that Time magazine, Stemple and Meyers (2014 & 2017), and men's activists have been saying now for 10 years: that the CDC has been carefully redefining female-on-male rape in a separate category ("made to penetrate") in order to hide the fact that their data very clearly shows that women rape men at equal rates that men rape women.

The CDC definitions for "rape" and "made to penetrate" are almost word-for-word identical except for the anatomical differences between men and women. So it shouldn't exactly take a philosopher of ethics to look at that to tell us that the numbers in the "made to penetrate" category represent people who have been raped. But that's basically what we're looking at here. So I applaud their efforts because honestly, some people are dense, and probably still won't like this argument very much. And it's frustrating that the CDC did this to begin with instead of just treating it as a gender neutral issue and calling both things what they are: rape.

One interesting finding in this paper that I haven't seen anywhere else is that if you account for the fact that 51% of the population is female, then on a per capita basis, male sexual assault isn't just roughly the same as female sexual assault. It's slightly higher.

Given that the population of the United States in 2010 was only 49.00% male, the per capita rate of rape was actually 4.37% higher for males than it was for females.

The paper also notes that the overall profile and harm associated with female-on-male rape is roughly equivalent as the reverse. The physical and psychological harm that male victims experience is the same that female victims experience. Male victims attempt to resist their attackers at the exact same rate as female victims (89% of the time). And female rapists use similar strategies at similar rates as male rapists. Including the use of violence and weapons (both male and female rapists use weapons 7% of the time). So overall, just about everything is the same between genders. The only thing that is different that I've ran across is that female attackers often threaten male victims with false allegations ("say anything and I'll tell everyone you're the rapist"). This finding wasn't included in the paper though, likely because it comes from UK research, and this paper is focused on North America.

Abstract:

Anyone who engages in sexual intercourse with someone who is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, unconscious, oblivious to their surroundings or not able to voice dissent can be charged with the crime of rape. No individual should be used, without their consent, for another person’s pleasure. The lack of informed consent makes rape unethical. Ethically the victim being male should be irrelevant. Yet male rape is rarely reported and frequently minimized, as will be shown by the 2010 CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey as well as other sources in this paper which will show that male rape happens about as often as female rape, and possibly exceeds it. Evidence also shows that 80% of those who rape men are women. Reconsidering stereotypes of the rape of men is an important part of rethinking masculinity. Among these stereotypes is the assumption that male rape is rare, as well as assumptions about the experience of male rape victims. The goal of this paper is to show that male rape is a prevalent problem and that the victims endure the same emotional and psychological after-effects as female rape victims.

Full-text (courtesy of the authors):

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12119-021-09901-1

https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2021-dimarco.pdf

Citation:

DiMarco, David, John Mizzoni, and Ryan Savitz. "On the Sexual Assault of Men." Sexuality & Culture (2021): 1-9.

AleksandrNevsky · 2021-08-14T15:22:13+00:00

Evidence also shows that 80% of those who rape men are women.

Gives me some very mixed feelings.

On the one hand: I'm not as alone as I thought.

On the other hand...I'm not as alone as I thought.

FinallyReborn · 2021-08-14T14:28:29+00:00

This is a fairly good source to rip quotes from in debates, but hell they just reiterated everything Stemple has published in her studies, they don't even try to hide this, every sentence in the study is just "Stemple found", Stemple said...", not at all original. The sources they cite are hauled right out of Lara Stemple's work, also.

They also don't even take into account the NISVS 2011, 2012 and 2015, they all found fairly prominent results. The 2012 survey even showed almost double male victims of that of female victims (even before taking into account population demographic, which would make the percentage per capita even higher).

I am convinced I can create a more thorough and original piece of literature that explores male rape victimization and female perpetration better than any of these trained academics can, because honestly, none of them are doing a particularly good job at it, there are dozens of sources that have been scouring around that I have yet to see used in any of these bibliography types...

2021-08-14T13:56:21+00:00

Excellent post

Title	On the Sexual Assault of Men
Author	Oncefa2
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Date	August 14, 2021 1:05 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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