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More men are raped as well, both as children and as adults if you count prisons, which as a society we generally don't and that in and of itself is informative.

• eevilspock 7y ago
  > More men are raped as well More? OMG that is about as self-serving a piece of false information as I've ever come across here on HN.
  • DuskStar 7y ago
    How so? Is it false? I know I've heard similar things before - more men raped each year, counting prison, than women in the US - and considering the state of our prisons it feels reasonable.
  • fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
    "In 2008, it was estimated 216,000[2] inmates were sexually assaulted while serving time, according to the Department of Justice figures. That is compared to 90,479[3] rape cases outside of prison."[1] Men are 92% of the prison population[4] [1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-ra... [2]https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=317 https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=317 [3]https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible... [4]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...
    • ihattendorf 7y ago
      Do you have a source that gives the number of men raped in prison? You can't just assume an even distribution.
• carti 7y ago
  Citation needed.