Rape stats

[Nyoibo]

Ok, it's late I'm tired and I'm due at the gym at 9:30 today, so I'll get the stats later but I figured I'd have the "backbone" to respond to this.

Wait, did you just mean to say that male on female rape is not the most common kind of rape? Are you serious? Have any statistics to back that up? How about having the backbone to make a thread asserting that, using those stats?

Inquiring minds want to know!

I didn't say it wasn't the most common, I said that I'd debate it being the overwhelming majority, just as quick stats I checked as I figured I'd get called out on that, male rape victims make up 10% of reported rapes and less than 10% of male on male rapes are reported, female-male rape is barely even recognised, most people don't even believe it's possible and has been severely under reported and in cases where it has been tried females are seen as less culpable because people believe a man getting an erection implies some form of consent. On top of that there has been almost no research done on female-female rape.

[kibbles]

I think it's sad that it isn't being recognized more and that females are seen as less culpable when they are just as disgusting and vile as the males who commit this crime

[Kalli]

OK... Now I might be being really naive here, but uh... what makes people think an erection implies consent? Surely guy's bits respond to physical stimuli just as easily as any other sexual encounter?

[fireheart17]

OK... Now I might be being really naive here, but uh... what makes people think an erection implies consent? Surely guy's bits respond to physical stimuli just as easily as any other sexual encounter?

I agree with this one.

My boyfriend used to work in an abbotoir aka slaughterhouse.

One of his jobs during the week involved standing next to something that vibrated constantly. and I mean very closely standing next to said item.
He'd get hard from that at least once a day.

Still...it sounds like one of the rape/sexual assault myths i.e. "he/she enjoys it so it can't be rape/assault." By that I mean the physical sense, not the emotional sense.

[Nyoibo]

OK... Now I might be being really naive here, but uh... what makes people think an erection implies consent? Surely guy's bits respond to physical stimuli just as easily as any other sexual encounter?

Yup, just the same as a woman can produce lubrication and even orgasm from rape, it's a physiological response.

Keep in mind that people didn't believe it was possible for a man to be raped.

[Kimmik]

Sadly you will never get an accurate counting of rape stats. Simply because there are groups that are not counted, or reported.

male on male rape, female on male and female on female rapes these are things are hardly ever reported because of the shame that we place on them. If a male rapes a male they both must be gay... female on male well the man wanted it.... female on female well they must be lesbians.

It is like women who are raped by their spouses. It is getting better... but when my ex husband raped me I was told that a husband couldn't rape his wife.

[Kalli]

when my ex husband raped me I was told that a husband couldn't rape his wife.

I'm so sorry that happened to you, and that someone said something so fucking retarded! What is this, the 19th century?

I hope you didn't give any credence to what they said

This is also a very difficult form of rape, because the victim may not receive (or even feel they should get) the same kind of support as say someone who is raped by a stranger. Rape is rape, whether the victim is a random on the street, a relative, someone of the same sex, your wife, your husband, whoever. None of it should be played down or disregarded.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, there's the fact that rape does not have to be penile penetration. I don't really want to go into it, due to people here possibly being squeamish, but there are other objects that can be used in place of a penis to penetrate a vagina or anus. Therefore, it's entirely possible for a woman to rape a man, even without forcing him to penetrate her.

[fireheart17]

I think also oral sex falls into that category Lace.

[Flyndaran]

The real problem is that most people can't understand how one can rape a person without that person fighting back hard. They forget that psychological force can be just as effective as burly rapist physiques.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think also oral sex falls into that category Lace.

Does that count in law as rape tho, or is it just classed as sexual assault? I'm not overly sure on that, which is why I didn't mention it.