Understanding the needs of male sexual assault victims

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-04-26 01:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'Historically, those of us who are male survivors of sexual victimization are often an unrecognized, underserved and unmentioned population when the issue of sexual assault is discussed. Many of us do not even recognize or understand that we may have been victimized. Yet one in five males will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, many of us before the age of 16.

The harmful impact of the sexual victimization of males is felt daily by all of us — in our families, communities and workplaces. It is often the unspoken, unrecognized and untreated issue when we are dealing with the problems of addiction, mental health, physical health, relationship issues, domestic violence, anger management, criminal behavior and many other issues that impact boys and men. Yet many male survivors do not know there are resources available to help them recover, nor do they feel safe talking about the impact sexual victimization has had on them.

I believe we all need to work harder to create a safe climate and culture for male sexual assault survivors. It is time for us to look at sexual assault and victimization as a gender-neutral issue. All survivors of sexual victimization are in need of quality services to assist them in their recovery regardless of their gender or age.'

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More of these sorts of articles need to be written. And it's good the author points out same-sex sexual abusiveness coming in various forms, including ritualized forms, as in hazing/initiation rituals (which are in essence perversions of traditional forms of male initiation -- "shadow initiations" as they're called in mythopoetic circles). But it's leaving out female-on-male sexual abuse, such as mother-son incest. But that's just for starters. That needs to be discussed, yes? Read this for starters.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-04-26 01:52

This is a good article, and it speaks of a topic that needs to be discussed. The only thing is I seriously doubt the 1 in 5 statistic. It sounds as bogus as the 1 in 4 or 1 in 3 that feminists are always throwing out there.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2013-04-26 15:45