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A survey published in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' estimated that nearly as many men as women were raped in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s (22% of men and 30% of women in Eastern Congo reported conflict-related sexual violence, which would likely be heavily influenced by social desirability bias in the case of male survivors in particular). Many of the men who were raped in the Congo reported being abandoned by their wives after the experience, with the wives citing the rape as evidence that the man was weak and therefore could not protect her.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men</ref> | A survey published in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' estimated that nearly as many men as women were raped in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s (22% of men and 30% of women in Eastern Congo reported conflict-related sexual violence, which would likely be heavily influenced by social desirability bias in the case of male survivors in particular). Many of the men who were raped in the Congo reported being abandoned by their wives after the experience, with the wives citing the rape as evidence that the man was weak and therefore could not protect her.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men</ref> | ||
This stigma against receptive homosexual sex due to the association of it with effeminacy and | This stigma against receptive homosexual sex due to the association of it with effeminacy, weakness and failure to compete explains why accusation of being a receptive homosexual was historically one of, if not the worst, insults one could level at a man. | ||
== Penetrative gay sex is high status == | == Penetrative gay sex is high status == | ||