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Originally Posted by O-tacular
Agreed. It is much harder for men to come forward when the perpetrator is female. Society’s automatic response not too long ago would have been to congratulate the victim for “becoming a man”. This is so damaging and needs to change. I am hopeful it will change though. Me Too isn’t perfect but I have heard more talk of male victims since it began even if very few are coming forward. Society seems to recognize male on male assaulters but not so much female ones. Hopefully the Me Too tide will help to raise the boats of male survivors of female predators too.
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On those points we agree. Men normally do not come forward. In fact, a lot of what I was saying was along those lines as well. Again, ALL sexual abuse is wrong regardless of gender, my point is that sexual abuse of men by women is generally ignored by society despite the fact that it is very common as many studies have shown. I have done a ton of research and have untold links to studies like the following.
Sexual Victimization by Women in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008-09
A study was released by the D.O.J on the 2008-2009 reporting period showed that children incarcerated in juvenile facilities were SEXUALLY MOLESTED BY WOMEN SLIGHTLY MORE THAN 95% OF THE TIME while male staff accounted for only 4.6% of the sexual molestation of the minors incarcerated who reported sexual abuse.
http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry09.pdf
Here is an updated survey
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry12.pdf
Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known
A NEW STUDY GIVES A PORTRAIT OF FEMALE PERPETRATORS
In 2014, we published a study on the sexual victimization of men, finding that men were much more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than was thought. To understand who was committing the abuse, we next analyzed four surveys conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to glean an overall picture of how frequently women were committing sexual victimization.
The results were surprising. For example, the CDC’s nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. Over their lifetime, 79 percent of men who were “made to penetrate” someone else (a form of rape, in the view of most researchers) reported female perpetrators. Likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had female perpetrators.
And, because we had previously shown that nearly one million incidents of sexual victimization happen in our nation’s prisons and jails each year, we knew that no analysis of sexual victimization in the U.S. would be complete without a look at sexual abuse happening behind bars. We found that, contrary to assumptions, the biggest threat to women serving time does not come from male corrections staff. Instead, female victims are more than three times as likely to experience sexual abuse by other women inmates than by male staff.
Male-perpetrated sexual victimization finally came to public attention after centuries of denial and indifference, thanks to women’s rights advocates and the anti-rape movement. Attention to sexual victimization perpetrated by women should be understood as a necessary next step in continuing and expanding upon this important legacy.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...Facebook-Share
Why Do Men Have Unwanted Sex? It’s Not Just Gender Expectations, New Research Finds
Men have unwanted sex with women in order to conform to gender expectations and to avoid uncomfortable interactions finds new research by a New York University sociologist.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publi...tations--.html
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