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 the number of victims greater than the government or media coverage would suggest. Male rape victims face an enormous amount of social prejudice in coming forward. One organisation working with male victims told the Stern Review: "Very few men will … [Read more...] about Rape of men and boys can not be brushed away
Sexual Abuse
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 and 90 % are male. More than two lakh people die in accidents and 85% are male. So if feminists’ logic of using statistics to push for gender biased laws was true, then laws related to murder should apply only to … [Read more...] about Rape by women, and why gender biased laws are evil
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 means to have hearings at home. The same goes for women victims of sexual crimes. So far, the definition of sexual crimes, particularly rape, has been in the context … [Read more...] about Finally government waking up to abuse of boys