Is male rape a very serious problem these days?

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i mean  is the situation as bad as female rape

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

90% of rape victims are female.
1 in 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (14.8% completed, 2.8% attempted).
As of 1998, an estimated 17.7 million American women had been victims of attempted or completed rape.

Young women are especially at risk. 82% of all juvenile victims are female.
Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
Women ages 18-24 who are college students are 3 times more likely than women in general to experience sexual violence. Females of the same age who are not enrolled in college are 4 times more likely.

About 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
10% of rape victims are male/1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.
Approximately 1 in 33 males have been raped, or had an attempted rape.
As of 1998, 2.78 million men in the U. S. had been victims of attempted or completed rape.
Who is committing the rapes? The vast majority of perpetrators are male.

Men and Boys Are Also Affected by Sexual Violence.
Male college students are at a higher risk than non-students of the same age to experience sexual assault or rape.
Male students ages 18-24 are five times more likely than non-students of the same age to experience sexual violence.

So rape is a serious problem if you look at the psychological cost.
But the numbers of female rapes of males pale in comparison to what females experience by males.

laPrincesitaRoxi · Accepted Answer

We don’t know for certain because men won’t step forward and a lot of men are still in this mindset where they genuinely believe sexual conquest with adults at young ages means something good and go through life bragging about it instead of hitting an age where they finally become upset like women from the realization it was manipulation and abuse and a predator using you.
Or
On the other hand the belief that men don’t have things like this happen to them and they can’t come forward out of shame
Either ways men have to stop that and start raising up their sons to know better and changing their own mindsets.
Protect boys in the same ways girls are protected even though it fails but at least we are able to voice it and hopefully get justice so hopefully the same can be for boys and men.
I personally have taken the steps to make sure my own son is raised up to know his body is his alone and adults should never have access to it and if they do anything to him it’s wrong and it’s okay to kill them I mean go to the cops 🙂

Anpu23 · Accepted Answer

Here's the problem, their are only two real studies on this subject, one is police reports and conviction rates. The problem with this one is often male victims aren't recorded as rape victims but rather sexual assault or other terms especially as rape is legally defined as penitration, as most women do not penitrate their victims it doesn't count towards the statistic. Under that standard the figure is very low.
The other study is the CDC's survey on sexual assault. The problem with this is it's a voluntary survey and many men just don't answer. But according to it if you include rape by envelopement (forced to penitrate) the numbers of male and female victims are nearly identical (difference of a few percentage points). And these findings have been statistically consistent over multiple years. If you feel that the CDC is right we have a HUGE number of male victims that have never seen justice, if you accept the law enforcement statistics it isn't as big of a problem as female victims. Either way rape is horrible and no one should go through that.

SjE78 · Accepted Answer

rape, whether of men or women or children is very serious... though the issue with male rape is it is often ignored due to teh stigmatism surrounding it... for example

woman gets raped... and she goes the police it is more likely gonna be looked into and investigated, friends and family are more likely to be concerned and horrified for her...

man gets raped... he will be looked down on and treated like a wuss, those around him will take one look at his build and size and all belief will be out the window, instead they are more likely gonna take the piss of him

EmilyGreen99 · Answer

not as bad as female rape

BUTTTTTTTT , it is underreported and taken more casually. The victim often doesn't come forward or takes action and the rapist also gets far lenient punishments

the other day I was reading an article about how a school teacher was raping 5-8 different students and all she got was some condition to meet a therapist/Rehab or something. Not even a jail term
Now reverse the roles , if a male teacher was raping multiple minor girls , he would probably have a life term or something

This isn;t the only case , of all the cases I have seen of female rapists , they always give them lenient punishments compared to the male ones

ecfresh · Answer

Yes, all rape is always bad.

Agape93 · Answer

Yes it’s just as bad. Any rapist, regardless of gender, deserves to be flayed alive and nailed to a pole.

CashMoneyElias · Answer

I would love to be rape by an opposite gender :)

BlckGrl · Answer

Males usually dont report as much because the world doesn't care if men are in pain so we really dont know

Rexos · Answer

Rape is rape, and rape is bad, and male rape is not talked enough about or even taken seriously by a lot of people.
You can even see in the replies how if it's a woman raping a man it's not seen as a bad thing, and if it's a man then the problem seems to be that it's gay.

JosyJosy · Answer

It's worse, because it's more often dismissed or laughed at

Massageman · Answer

Probably a bigger problem than we are led to believe.

zamasux · Answer

There is no way to justify if he enjoyed the act or he was seriously abused and hurt both emotionally and physically.
This is the reason male rape is kind of igroned. No one believe if a male says he was raped.

Nalix · Answer

Always was, but for several reasons it was never treated as seriously.

RyanK9b · Answer

No. Rape towards females is still higher. But it happens to males too

Wise4myage · Answer

No, it does occur, but its not even close to occurring as often as female rape is.

Jackblue · Answer

In prison it is pretty bad.

AlwaysBelieving · Answer

It's a problem (any rape is), it's not talked about as much.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Like my cousin once said he doesn't know nor understand how can a man get hard off another man, much worse rape a man. 🤢

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Sexual abuse of boys is epidemic and wildly underreported.

asshole_ · Answer

nope

JessieBellll · Answer

Most rape victims can live normal lives after a while. They are not constrained in any way like a blind person is.

Purified_Aura · Answer

im sure it is just as bad if not socially worse for them

JamesBlackDragon · Answer

It's extremely bad but the statistics will never back it up because like some women don't report it even more men will not report it

People would try to tell you otherwise but no one knows the actual facts whether or not mean get raped more than women it's a possibility that women get raped more but it's also a possibility that men get raped like I said the statistics just aren't there for men because they don't report it enough

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