This isn’t surprising. For pretty much all of history and continues today in some places sexual assault and rape were by definition something only men could do.

This isn’t surprising. For pretty much all of history and continues today in some places sexual assault and rape were by definition something only men could do. The FBI in 2012 finally updated their definition to recognize that men can be rape victims. We still dismiss teenage boys being raped by adult women as, “I bet he liked it.” This belief hasn’t permeated our culture, it is the rock on which the very idea of what sexual crimes are [1]. The cultural shift is the other direction thanks to people fighting for it but we’re a long way from the end of the tunnel. [1] Which is damage to property of a husband or father sooo that’s uhh something. The laws changed on paper but the spirit lived on.