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Originally posted by Guernica
of course it's as bad, why on earth wouldn't it be. a person is being violated. males being rape victims is less talked about and less of a concern for most people because, like I said, females are much more likely to be victims of rape, I think it's like 9 out of 10 rape victims are female
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Not quite. That's only true if you don't consider it rape when men are forced to penetrate women.
I want you to take a look at this image, taken from a CDC report on sexual violence:
According to the table, 1,581,000 men reported being victims of rape in their lifetime. But 5,451,000 reported being forced to penetrate. Now how is that possible?
The answer is that the CDC; and most organizations that gather statistics on rape; refuse to recognize it as rape. If a woman forces a man to penetrate her, it's "sexual assault" or "other sexual violence".