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Around one in five of women and one in 20 of men have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.or

by PieterH 11y ago

Around one in five of women and one in 20 of men have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender. To deny that sexual assault happens against men is to live half-blind. Sexual assault in all cases is about power and gratification by abusive individuals (spread equally among both sexes) against the vulnerable of either sex (and the gender matters little to them). Edit: corrected the figures.

kupaka 11y ago
>Around one in 20 of women and men equally, have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender. That stat's not in that article.
- ta140604 11y ago
  That stat IS in that article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females "In a 2000 research article from the Home Office, in England and Wales, around 1 in 20 women (5%) said that they had been raped at some point in their life from the age of 16 beyond.[6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males "The same study found that approximately 1 in 21 men had been made to penetrate someone else, usually an intimate partner or acquaintance." This is completely in line with original claim, "have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will". Wiki page does call this rape when it comes to women, but not when it comes to men.
  - kupaka 11y ago
    I don't think it's intellectually honest to mix and match stats from different studies to fit your worldview. The study that has the 1 in 21 stat for men who have been forced to penetrate also says that 1 in 5 women have been raped. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a...
    - PieterH 11y ago
      I didn't see the full study. Thanks for pointing me to it. Indeed the figures are higher for women than for men. Let me edit my comment to reflect that.

by PieterH 11y ago

kupaka 11y ago

>Around one in 20 of women and men equally, have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender. That stat's not in that article.

ta140604 11y ago
That stat IS in that article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females "In a 2000 research article from the Home Office, in England and Wales, around 1 in 20 women (5%) said that they had been raped at some point in their life from the age of 16 beyond.[6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males "The same study found that approximately 1 in 21 men had been made to penetrate someone else, usually an intimate partner or acquaintance." This is completely in line with original claim, "have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will". Wiki page does call this rape when it comes to women, but not when it comes to men.
- kupaka 11y ago
  I don't think it's intellectually honest to mix and match stats from different studies to fit your worldview. The study that has the 1 in 21 stat for men who have been forced to penetrate also says that 1 in 5 women have been raped. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a...
  - PieterH 11y ago
    I didn't see the full study. Thanks for pointing me to it. Indeed the figures are higher for women than for men. Let me edit my comment to reflect that.