Why does society ignore the sexual coercion of men by other men and women?

[White_Unifier]

Hockey and sports coaching, Cub and Scout leadership, the Priesthood, even school teaching attracts predatory paedophiles to their ranks so that their prey is closer, more vulnerable and able be attacked with subtlety.

Expect the worst and keep our children safe. Any kind of touching is potentially criminal. Don't cool around. One simple incident can ruin a young person for life.

Adult males can be coerced into sex too, whether though verbal or physical violence. This is not limited to children. worse yet, a boy or man who is sexually abused by a woman is also at higher risk of abusing girls or women later himself. This is not to excuse his behavior, but just to say that to fight against sexual abuse, we must protect both sexes and not just women since otherwise it it's like cutting out half a tumour and leaving the other half in to fester for the next generation.

 

[Angstrom]

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/coerced-sex.aspx

'A total of 43 percent of high school boys and young college men reported they had an unwanted sexual experience and of those, 95 percent said a female acquaintance was the aggressor, according to a study published online in the APA journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity®.'

How is it that anti-rape education campaigns often ignore the possibility that men can be victims and women can be perpetrators? In fact, in the US until 2013, the legal definition of rape excluded the possibility that a man could be raped by a woman!

Sure the law changed since, but social beliefs about female sexual aggressors and male victims of sexual coercion still have a ways to go.

Outside of sexual violence, there is also the matter of domestic violence. Statistics show that the rate of men being battered by their wives is in fact almost as common as that of women bettered by their husbands, and the physical harm done can sometimes be just as horrific as women are also more likely to use weapons in the attack.

Is this just a societal blind spot based on gender-role stereotypes?

An interesting statistic I just came across too is that 60 to 80 percent of rapists, sex offenders, and sexually aggressive men were sexually abused by a woman in their childhood. While this certainly does not excuse the behaviour of an able-minded rapist, it certainly goes to show how combating the sexual abuse of men by women could probably help to combat the sexual abuse of women by men. With that, ignoring the sexual abuse of boys and men by women could contribute to the rape of women by men and so feed the cycle of violence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9s5H-RNjxY

Its because men are fundamentally different then women. Something we have known all along, but have recently started trying to ignore.

The truth sometimes breaks the thread

 

[White_Unifier]

How are men fundamentally different from women? I'm not disagreeing with you that in some ways men and women have unique features. However, sexual coercion hurts men and boys. Whether it hurts them as much as it does women, I don't know. And I'll concede that maybe it doesn't. But it still can traumatize many boys and even grown men.

 

[Angstrom]

How are men fundamentally different from women? I'm not disagreeing with you that in some ways men and women have unique features. However, sexual coercion hurts men and boys. Whether it hurts them as much as it does women, I don't know. And I'll concede that maybe it doesn't. But it still can traumatize many boys and even grown men.

On a indiviual level yes. but it doesn't seem to affect us enough to disable our ability to survive as a group. And that is what, mostly shapes our human design.
We aren't evolved on a individual consern basis. The univers has shaped us based on group survival chances.

Bad behaviour on a individual level can be rewarded on a group survivability level. And thats when we can add "Rape culture", Into the conversation. Now i argue that its not a simple culture. We can't simply change this reality like you could a culture.

I believe its more instinctive then simple culture. Undoing billions of years of survival is not as simple as they make it out too be.

Maybe you can disarm, or pacifie bad individual behaviour. But the basic instincts remain.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

How is it that anti-rape education campaigns often ignore the possibility that men can be victims and women can be perpetrators? In fact, in the US until 2013, the legal definition of rape excluded the possibility that a man could be raped by a woman!

Sorry, WU, this is complete garbage. "The US" has no laws on rape, they are state laws, different in every state, and changing in different ways at different times. Which casts doubt on the veracity of the rest of your article.