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* https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-ag-018.html | * https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-ag-018.html | ||
* https://web.stanford.edu/group/maan/cgi-bin/?page_id=305 | * https://web.stanford.edu/group/maan/cgi-bin/?page_id=305 | ||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">As many US men report being "forced to penetrate" someone each year as women report being raped</span>=== | |||
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As noted in the preceding section, under US law, an adult man cannot be raped unless he is penetrated by an object. Under no circumstance if the man's penis penetrates another person is it legally considered that the man has been raped. | |||
Thus the best estimates of cases in which a man has been raped under a more general definition come from parsing the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. | |||
This survey defines rape as follows: | |||
* ''Rape is defined as any completed or attempted unwanted vaginal (for women), oral, or anal penetration through the use of physical force (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threats to physically harm and includes times when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent. Rape is separated into three types, completed forced penetration, attempted forced penetration, and completed alcohol or drug facilitated penetration.'' | |||
* ''-Among women, rape includes vaginal, oral, or anal penetration by a male using his penis. It also includes vaginal or anal penetration by a male or female using their fingers or an object. '' | |||
* ''-Among men, rape includes oral or anal penetration by a male using his penis. It also includes anal penetration by a male or female using their fingers or an object. | |||
They defined being made to penetrate someone else as follows: | |||
* ''Being made to penetrate someone else includes times when the victim was made to, or there was an attempt to make them, sexually penetrate someone without the victim’s consent because the victim was physically forced (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threatened with physical harm, or when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent.'' | |||
* ''-Among women, this behavior reflects a female being made to orally penetrate another female’s vagina or anus. '' | |||
* ''-Among men, being made to penetrate someone else could have occurred in multiple ways: being made to vaginally penetrate a female using one’s own penis; orally penetrating a female’s vagina or anus; anally penetrating a male or female; or being made to receive oral sex from a male or female. It also includes female perpetrators attempting to force male victims to penetrate them, though it did not happen.'' | |||
Thus we can see these definitions are roughly equivalent for how a man or woman can generally each be forced into sexual activity against their will. | |||
The statistics for these types of sexual victimization were in 2011, for the 12 months preceding the survey: | |||
* 1.6% of women reported being raped by a perpetrator. (An insignificant number of men reported being raped.) | |||
* 1.7% of men reported they were made to penetrate a perpetrator. (An insignificant number of women reported being forced to penetrate.) | |||
By comparison, in 2010, for the 12 months preceding the survey: | |||
* 1.1% of women reported being raped by a perpetrator. (An insignificant number of men reported being raped.) | |||
* 1.1% of men reported they were made to penetrate a perpetrator. (An insignificant number of women reported being forced to penetrate.) | |||
Thus we can that men are equally likely as women to be forced into sexual activity each year against their will when the definitions that are used are appropriate for each gender, and the definition of the crime is not skewed so only men can legally be considered, "rapists." | |||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | |||
* https://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/# | |||
* https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm | |||
* https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf | |||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Women permit 'creepy' behavior from attractive but not unattractive men due to the 'horn effect'</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Women permit 'creepy' behavior from attractive but not unattractive men due to the 'horn effect'</span>=== | ||