{"id":44779,"date":"2012-02-04T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:59:51","slug":"male-victims-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/04\/male-victims-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Victims of Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Feminists have done a powerful job of making the sexual assault of women by men a public issue. \u00a0Male victims, though, have remained largely invisible. In fact, one in ten victims of sexual assault is male. \u00a0Most of these men are raped by other men.<\/p>\n

The Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network<\/a>\u00a0is attempting to raise awareness of this issue. \u00a0As part of their campaign, they are sponsoring this really interesting two-minute video made by my colleague,\u00a0Dr. Broderick Fox, professor of Art History and Visual Arts at Occidental College<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/strong>: In the comment thread, Umlud posted a provocative paragraph from an article by Christopher Glazek at N+1<\/a>\u00a0that I thought was worth including:<\/p>\n

In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em>, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That\u2019s 216,000\u00a0victims<\/em>, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feminists have done a powerful job of making the sexual assault of women by men a public issue. \u00a0Male victims, though, have remained largely invisible. In fact, one in ten victims of sexual assault is male. \u00a0Most of these men are raped by other men. The Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network\u00a0is attempting to raise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,55,2090,293,133],"class_list":["post-44779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-social-construction","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58493,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779\/revisions\/58493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}