Male victims of rape and sexual abuse

Coxell, Adrian; King, Michael

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“…Studies on self-reported perpetration are still few, especially among women. Despite the myth that men can only be sexually coerced by other men 46 , the majority of men who report victimization are heterosexuals and mostly report that their aggressors are women 3,14 . However, the percentage of victimization was higher in male homosexuals and bisexuals than in heterosexuals 13,14,29 .…”

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Frequency of self-reported sexual aggression and victimization in Brazil: a literature review

Winzer

2016

Cad. Saúde Pública

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Frequency of self-reported sexual aggression and victimization in Brazil: a literature review

Winzer

2016

Cad. Saúde Pública

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“…Although rape is considered a sexual crime against women and the rape of men has been largely neglected by society (Stermac, Sheridan, Davidson, & Dunn, 1996), in recent years there have actually been growing numbers of clinical reports on rapes of men (Coxell & King, 1996;Forman, 1983;Hickson, et al, 1994;Mitchell, Hirschman, & Nagayama-Hall, 1999;Pino & Meier, 1999). Despite these findings, lay people, as well as professionals in the fields of medicine, law, and education, continue to deny, dismiss, or diminish the significant number of men who are sexually assaulted.…”

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Rape Myths and Social Distance Toward Sex Offenders and Victims among Therapists and Students

Shechory

Idisis

2006

Sex Roles

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This study was designed to investigate the relationships between gender role stereotypes, rape myths, and social distance from sex offenders and sex crime victims among students and therapists. A Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, an Attitude Variables Questionnaire, and a Social Distance Scale were administered to 125 female social science students and 51 female therapists. The findings validated our hypothesis: traditional gender role attitudes and belief in rape myths were positively related to social distance. Although therapists were willing to be in social contact with both victims and offenders to a much greater degree than were students, both groups expressed a decline in willingness to have social contact with victims and offenders, especially when the relationships were closer and more intimate. It seems that three decades after the first studies of rape myths, prejudices and stereotypes concerning rape and rape victims still exist.

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“…Although in recent years there have been growing numbers of clinical reports on male rape (Coxell & King, 1996;Forman, 1983;Hickson et al, 1994;Mitchell, Hirschman, & Nagayama-Hall, 1999;Pino & Meier, 1999), still laypeople as well as professionals in the fields of medicine, law, and education continue to deny, dismiss, or diminish the significant number of men who are sexually assaulted (Scarce, 1997). For example, Donnely & Kenyon (1996) found fewer than 12 studies of male rape victims, many of which were based on small sample groups.…”

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Attribution of blame to rape victims among therapists and non‐therapists

Idisis

Ben‐David²,

Ben-Nachum³

2007

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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This paper examines the hypothesis of modular judgment in the context of attribution of blame to rape victims. Modular judgment was operationalized using blame schemata suited to judgment of everyday aggression. Subjects were 72 individuals, 36 therapists and 36 non-therapists; half were men and half women. Each subject was presented with written descriptions of four rapes, which included information regarding victim's gender (male versus female) and victim's prior acquaintance with the rapist (stranger or known). Dependent variables were attribution of blame and judgments regarding severity of the rape and of the punishment deserved by the rapist. Among both therapists and non-therapists there was a slight general tendency to blame the victim. As expected, women were blamed more than men. Also, men attributed less blame to male victims then did women, whereas women attributed less blame to female victims then did men. These results support the theories of modular judgment and of defensive attribution. As for judgment of severity of the rape, therapists judged the rapes as slightly more severe. Similar results were found regarding judgment of deserved punishment. We suggest further investigation of the connection between blame attribution and rape myths, which may facilitate blaming the victim.

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Male victims of rape and sexual abuse

Cited by 48 publications

References 14 publications

Frequency of self-reported sexual aggression and victimization in Brazil: a literature review

Frequency of self-reported sexual aggression and victimization in Brazil: a literature review

Rape Myths and Social Distance Toward Sex Offenders and Victims among Therapists and Students

Attribution of blame to rape victims among therapists and non‐therapists

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