According to a UK study, 8% of recorded rape victims are male. Rape is not just a women’s issue According to the Stern Review, the victim is male in around 8% of all recorded rape cases. The unrecorded figure is thought to be far higher. Rape and sexual assault are seen as women’s issues – the victims are female, the perpetrators male. But it is no longer acceptable to pretend, as some do, that rape and sexual assault are only committed by men against women. The proportion of men who go on to report sexual assault is extremely low and …[Continue Reading]
Rape by women, and why gender biased laws are evil
Two newspaper articles below show the reality of rape by women. Anyone in Indian government or legislature who is making laws only to protect women must be having their eyes closed, or waiting for a near and dear one to be sexually abused or raped by a woman, before they admit reluctantly to it. Interesting point is: the feminists always protest against making sexual abuse laws to be gender neutral. If the same logic was applied to murder statistics, then murder laws should be applicable only against males. Because in India, more than one lakh people are murdered every year …[Continue Reading]
Finally government waking up to abuse of boys
http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=18_03_2010_012_012&mode=1 …The other is that there will be redressal for the boy child in cases of molestation. A study by the ministry of women and child development shows that more boys suffer sexual abuse than girls and that one out of two children have suffered some form of molestation usually between the ages of 9 to 12. In the case of boys, only proven sodomy is an offence so far and does not take into account other forms of sexual offences or harassment. Already, the law has evolved mechanisms to lessen the trauma of child victims, providing them the …[Continue Reading]
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