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It's curious that you define rape as something that happens to a woman, whereas "sex without consent due to alcoholic incapacitation of the victim" can happen t
by dvtv75 9y ago
It's curious that you define rape as something that happens to a woman, whereas "sex without consent due to alcoholic incapacitation of the victim" can happen to a male, too. I've had male friends raped in that way, and the only one who tried to report it to the police was disgusted by the officer's response: "Score!" He outright refused to take a complaint from my friend.
Rape is also defined (by the Rape Crisis Centre in New Zealand) as sex where one party has pressured the (unwilling) other into it, pressured the other into sexual acts, used alcohol or drugs to generate compliance, or even simply used force. Each and every one of those can be applied to a sexual encounter between a male and a female, with a non-consenting male. Would you just believe the women in those cases, too?
Something that's quite interesting to note, I've seen a citation of "The Gender of Sexuality" by Rutter and Schwartz for a claim that lesbian women reported rape by their partners in 1 out of 3 relationships, double the rate claimed for heterosexual relationships. (I haven't read the book, and the citation was quite some years ago.)
- moomin 9y agoYou make some good points and you're right, men can be victims and women can be perpetrators. And yes, women can be liars. But liars to the extent that it invalidates the CDC's preferred methods? I'd need to see some hard proof of that.